Our Whimpering World The world is a wasteland harboring hollow men "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality" -T.S. ... Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; To describe the cellar in terms of binary oppositions Eliot wants to emphasize its unnecessary qualities. ...

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