The Hollow Men

Slide 1: T.S. Eliot T h H o wMe e llo n

Slide 2: We are the hollowmen

Slide 3: We are the stuffed men

Slide 4: Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

Slide 5: Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quietmeaningl and ess

Slide 6: As wind in dry grass In our dry cellar

Slide 7: Shape without form, Shade without colour,

Slide 8: Paralysed force , gesture without motion;

Slide 9: Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom

Slide 10: Remember us –if at all – not as lost Violent souls, but only As The hollow men The stuffed men.

Slide 11: Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death’s dream kingdom

Slide 12: : appear not are n se do yes colum The the e broken ere, t on a Th gh li Sun

Slide 13: There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind’s singing More d i s t a n t and more solemn Than a fading star

Slide 14: rer om gd o nea kin m ea en dr h’s t me b at de In Le

Slide 15: Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises

Slide 16: Rat’s coat, crowskin, In a field crossed staves B e avingasth w bh s h e ind e ave

Slide 17: No nearer – Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom

Slide 18: Th isth d e a d la is e nd Th isth c a c t u s is e land

Slide 19: Here the s t o n e images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man’s h a n d UNDER THE TWINKLE OF A FADING STAR.

Slide 20: Is it like this In death’s other kingdom

Slide 21: Waking alone At the hour when we are Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone T r e m b l i n g with tenderness

Slide 22: The e y e not here are s There are no e y e s here

Slide 23: In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley

Slide 24: In this l a s t of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Slide 25: unless Sightless,

Slide 26: The eyes R As the perpetualA R E A P P E star

Slide 27: The hope only Of empty men. Multifoliate rose Of death’s twilight kingdom

Slide 28: Here we go round the prickly pear pear Prickly o’clock in the morning At five pear prickly pear

Slide 29: And the reality Between the idea

Slide 30: Between the m o t i o n the a c t And F A L L S T H E S H A D O W F O R T H I N E

Slide 31: Between the c o n c e p t i o n F A L L S T H E S H A D O W And the c r e a t i o L i f e i s n v e r y

Slide 32: Between the And the And the e s s e n c e s descent p a s m F A L L S T H E S H A D O W And the Between the s t e n E x i Between the p oc t e e n c y

Slide 33: FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM

Slide 34: Life is For Thine is the

Slide 35: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends

Slide 36: Not with a bang but a whimper T H E E N D