Critical Review: T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot, born in Missouri on September 26, 1888, is probably one of the most well known poets of his time. Living in St. Louis during the first eighteen years of his life, Eliot attended Harvard University. In 1910, he left the US for the Sorbonne, having earned both undergraduate and masters degrees and writing several poems to the Harvard Advocate. After a year in Paris, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in philosophy, but …

…ends, Not with a bang but with a whimper” “The Hallow Men” shows the reader an inside into the thoughts and feelings of some persons that you might even called depressed. The poem almost shows you there weaknesses and bluntly points out the pain and suffering some of “The Hallow men” have gone threw. Nothing changed there feelings either, for that was the way there world ended, not with a bang, but with a whimper.