Which 20th century poet said: "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper."?

Today, one of the most popular poems by T.S. is “The Hollow Men”, its doom-laden imagery is especially popular with more doom-oriented individuals. In this poem, there is the famous line, "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper."

Eliot's popularity clearly relies in part with sympathetic people who like his skewed ideas. His poems may not be easy to understand fully at first, with their abstract nature and oblique details, but he does make an immediate impact with some deathless lines: “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.” Such words, full of import could have been designed to pique the interest of adolescents struggling to make sense of their lives.

It has been said, by his peers that Eliot as an artist aims to capture a particular sense of disquiet found in his world. It may even be similar to Eliot's own unease at the progress being made by mankind in the early 20th century.