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24 Sep: "The Hollow Men" part 2

"The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot    

                        II

     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
    There, is a tree swinging
    And voices are
    In the wind's 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
    Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
    In a field
    Behaving as the wind behaves
    No nearer-
    
    Not that final meeting
    In the twilight kingdom
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2 comments:

  1. Allie Jo DreadfulwaterSeptember 30, 2016 at 2:59 AM

    Are the eyes, dead man's eyes? Wishing no option of death or having to kill someone and be haunted by the "Eyes I dare not see in dreams"?

    If a warrior, wishing to be further away than death versus closer. In war on the outside, but hoping for peace.

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  2. JimboOctober 9, 2016 at 2:43 AM

    I messed up the title in every post.

    I had to look up what other people think. Eliot thought the modern culture was all screwed up. They are the hollow men with the eyes

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