<Li> In the video game Kairo, there is a quote from the poem on a wall in the "supersecret" location . </Li> <Li> In the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the AI Colonel in the final speech quotes "And this is the way the world ends . Not with a bang, but a whimper". </Li> <Li> Trailers for the video game Halo 3 features a line indirectly referencing the poem: "Your poet Eliot was wrong . This is how the world ends ." </Li> <Ul> <Li> Denis ApIvor wrote a work called The Hollow Men for baritone, male chorus and orchestra around 1939 . It had only one performance, in 1950, under the conductor Constant Lambert, and produced by the BBC through the influence of Edward Clark . </Li> <Li> The American new wave band Devo partially lifted from the poem for the chorus to the song "The Shadow" on their seventh album Total Devo (1988) </Li> <Li> The song "Hollow Man" appears as the first track on the album Doppelgänger (1983) by the group Daniel Amos; the song is a paraphrase of Eliot's poem spoken over the music of "Ghost of the Heart" played backwards; "Ghost of the Heart" is the last song on the group's previous album ¡ Alarma! (1981) </Li> <Li> The Argentinian rock band Divididos has a song named after the poem ("Los hombres huecos") on their debut album 40 dibujos ahí en el piso (1988) </Li> <Li> Members of the Minneapolis hiphop collective Doomtree have referenced this poem in a number of collective and individual songs, including the single "No Homeowners" on the collective's 2007 album False Hopes, ". 38 Airweight" on 2015's All Hands, and in the single "Flash Paper" from member Sims's 2016 album More than Ever . </Li> <Li> The last line of the poem is referenced in Amanda Palmer's song "Strength Through Music", based on the Columbine High School massacre . </Li> <Li> Eliot's poem inspired The Hollow Men (1944), a piece for trumpet and string orchestra by composer Vincent Persichetti and one of his most popular works . </Li> <Li> Jon Foreman of Switchfoot says that the band's song "Meant to Live" is inspired by Eliot's poem . </Li> <Li> The Gaslamp Killer song In the Dark...has the lyrics "This is the way the world ends" in it . </Li> <Li> The Greek black metal band Rotting Christ uses excerpts of the poem as lyrics for the song "Thine Is the Kingdom" on their album Sleep of the Angels . The final stanza of the poem is used as the song's chorus . </Li> <Li> Tim Minchin uses the last stanza at the end of his song: the Perineum Millennium . </Li> <Li> The title song from The Smiths' studio album The Queen Is Dead features the closing repeated refrain,' Life is very long', which the lyricist Morrissey has then personalised by adding the line' when you're lonely' . </Li> <Li> Axel Thesleff created a musical interpretation of the poem in form of a five - track LP . </Li> <Li> British 90s band EMF used the line "this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends" using wordplay to add "not with a band" in their song Longtime on the album Schubert Dip </Li> <Li> The hardcore punk group Code Orange use lines of the poem in their song "IV (My Mind Is A Prison)". </Li> <Li> The Australian band TISM has a song on their 1986 EP Form and Meaning reach Ultimate Communion about T.S. Eliot titled "Mistah Eliot, He Wanker". </Li> <Li> The 2011 release by North Carolina - based band Scapegoat, I Am Alien, references the poem in the title track: "So thank you Mr. Elliot for showing us the way the world will end, Not with a bang, but with a whimper on the wind, And I've come to tell all of my friends, That it starts with a bang, but ends with the wind ." </Li> <Li> Frank Turner references The Hollow Men in his song "Sons of Liberty". His song "Anymore" also contains a reference to the last line of the poem . </Li> <Li> In 2018 the record label Houndstooth released a compilation of experimental electronic music inspired by The Hollow Men entitled In Death's Dream Kingdom that included tracks by notable artists such as Peter Van Hoesen, Kangding Ray, and Peder Mannerfelt . </Li> </Ul>

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