“The Hollow Men” (part1& 2) By T.S. Eliot To:……………………………………. Prepared by: Mr. Salman Taki

Who is T.S. Eliot ? Thomas Stearns Eliot(September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a playwright, literary critic, and an important English-language poet of the 20th century. "It wouldn't be what it is, and I imagine it wouldn't be so good ... if I'd been born in England, and it wouldn't be what it is if I'd stayed in America. It's a combination of things. But in its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America."

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men

Head piece filled with straw. Alas! Leaning Together Head piece filled with straw. Alas!

> ____ Are quiet and meaningless Our dried voices, when We whisper together ____ >

As wind in dry grass-Or rats’ feet over broken glass-In our dry cellar

Shape without form, Shade without colour, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;

With direct eyes, to death’s other kingdom Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death’s other kingdom

Remember us, if at all, not as lost

Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams in death’s dream kingdom These do not appear

There, The eyes are sunlight on a broken column

And voices are In the wind’s There, is a tree Swinging Singing

More distant and more solemn Than a fading star

Let me be no nearer In death’s dream kingdom Let me also wear such deliberate disguises

In a field behaving as the wind behaves No nearer- Rat’s coat, crow skin, crossed staves

Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom

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