The Gorge's Hollow Men Were Named After The T.S. Eliot Poem Eliot's Poem Describes A Purgatory-Like Existence A crucial aspect of Levi's character is that he's fascinated by poetry.

Eliot converted to Christianity via Anglicanism two years after identifying the malaise of The Hollow Men and five years after anthropologically eviscerating the Waste Land of modernity.

Gerontion, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, The Hollow Men, half a dozen others—by 1925, Eliot had already published most of the poems on which his fame is based.

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper,” wrote T.S Eliot in his 1925 poem, The Hollow Men, 20 years before the first successful test of the nuclear bomb.

Levi learns the beasts below are known as the Hollow Men. Being a poet, he reconciles the T.S. Eliot poem of the same name. It spoke to people in purgatory who were afraid to move on.