T.S. List

"O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, To the vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant, The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters, The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers, Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees, Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark, And dark the Sun and the Moon, and the Almanach de Gotha And the Stock Exchange Gazette, The Directory of Directors..." (Eliot 27). This list seems to signify the darkness of death which is inevitable for all of mankind. With this list of people, thier rankings stated but of minimal importance, Eliot places every human on the same plane, the plane of fate or the plane of the inevitable.