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T. S. Eliot - “The Hollow Men”, second passage, "Kingdom", first…
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second passage
The other "stanza" in italics is about the end of the world, the apocalypse or judgement day. The last line of the poems says: The end of the world will not be a dramatic event (a bang), but totally unheroic and pathetic (like a whimper).
"This is how the world ends" (lines 95-97) is repeated three times. (Perhaps the last four lines should also be sung or spoken in unison like a mantra.) --> the world maybe ends like this because the hollow men are not "lost / Violent souls" (lines 15-16), as we have learned at the beginning, but only hollow men and stuffed men (lines 17-18) --> violent not as a negative term but as a soul that fought and struggled, that was passionate about life
And this is probably what the hollow men, the stuffed men are not. The speaker seems to despise himself for being one them and foresees a dull, unheroic, pathetic end with "a whimper" (line 98).
"Kingdom"
we have two kingdoms now: There is "our kingdom" (this world) and the "other kingdom" (the other world: heaven or paradise). What is strange about this apparently Christian vision: It's not God's other kingdom, it's Death's other kingdom. The speaker imagines dead people looking at him and the other hollow men, and he seems to be afraid of their glance: "Eyes I dare not meet in dreams" (line 19)
first passage
Imagine children dancing around a mulberry bush and singing – like a Maypole dance. But the "mulberry bush" of the nursery rhyme has been replaced here by a cactus: the "prickly pear" (lines 68-70). The hollow men, who live in "the dead land / [the] "cactus land" (lines 39-40), are dancing around a cactus.