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And the act
Falls the shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existance
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
Analysis of Part V: "Here we go round the prickly pear/ At five o'clock in the morning": It is in fact a variation of a children's rhyme: "Here we go round the mulberry bush" substituting a prickly pear cactus for the mulberry bush. These lines may suggest the frustration and reality of the hollow men. At intervals the frustrating shadow of fear interferes in every effort to make potential become actual. "Shadow" must be isolating the hollow men, making their movement and feeling impossible. "For Thine is the Kingdom": This line is a part from the Bible is said to serve as a reminder that God will not accept any excuses for sin. Another interpretation can be exhausted, fearful hollow men recite Bible to strive for salvation. " This the way the world ends/ not with a bang but with a whimper:"">Life is very long This line is relevant to Guy Fawkes' plan to blow up the parliament. It suggests that the end will be with whimpers of fear of hollow men not with the bang of Guy Fawkes. The whimper may be caused from the longing for the salvation of their souls. In those lines, the tone of the poem is sad and hopeless about life and spiritual journey. The narrator thinks that the end will be not with a apocalyptic catastrophe as in the Bible but through mankind who allow themselves slowly decay, degrade, exhaust and be empty at the core.

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