Friends Who Liked This Quote. The differing lengths could be a metaphor to represent the different amounts of life a person gets to live, death coming randomly and at any time.
Friends Who Liked This Quote. The last lines of the poem describe the way in which, for them and for so many of our desiccated generation, the end of life comes: This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. Anne Sexton, the poets' darling, dances to the darkening sky.
Time to finger photographs in silver frames the end of history. The sinking of this ship, first class to the end no chance of life pod or rescue none whatsoever Our final waltz. When the World Ends This is How It Will Be by Holly Hopkins.
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Poetry remains therapy until the patient is cured.
Pulitzer Prize, parties, men and accolades galore. Eliot. “This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.” ― T.S.
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To see what your friends thought of this quote, please sign up! Read more quotes from T.S. Share this quote: Like Quote. When the aliens came they watched us prepare our offerings of scientists for our final introduction. Recommend to friends. Share this quote: Like Quote. Harjo writes Perhaps the World Ends Here across 11 free verse stanzas. 33 likes
Eliot. Being written in this form, there is no distinct structural patterns, with the line lengths varying throughout.
This is how the world ends: without swirling stars, without a crescent moon, stuck alone inside your …
tags: life-and-death, mortality, poetry. “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.” ... , The Hollow Men. The poems and prose in Amanda Torroni's new book, Stargazing at Noon, unfold in moon phases, beginning with a fullness, then purging. Eliot tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry.