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This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. — T.S. Eliot

Poem

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

T.S. Eliot
1925
★ 9.1
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Topic
End of the worldDecline of civilizationSocietal collapse
Statement type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Medium
Poem
Time
1925
Person
T.S. Eliot
Provenance
Current citation
Eliot, T. S. "The Hollow Men." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, pt. 5.
Original citation
Eliot, T. S. "The Hollow Men." Poems: 1909-1925. Faber and Gwyer, 1925, pt. 5.

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