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The famous last four lines of “The Hollow Men”:


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.


directly state a philosophical view. What is this view, and how is it also conveyed in other passages of the poem? Analyze at least two passages containing imagery or figures of speech that, in your view, support the concluding lines.