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We see the stone images raised again to indicate soulless worshipping. It is used to highlight the impurity and insincerity of worshippers:
At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.
The fourth section is actually that twilight zone that hollow men dreaded. The fear of meeting the eyes had already been overcome. It is their absence which is disturbing now:
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The absence of eyes in the 'twilight kingdom' suggests that this part if yet another version of the world. Here reappearance of eyes would mean rekindling of spirit and rebirth of soul and conscience. The return of eyes is now a hope- 'the hope only'. The syntax is deliberately ambiguous- 'This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms' evokes a powerful and mysterious image of things in the twilight kingdom. The last section deals with another kind of fear and frustration. Here the 'shadow' represents the life...
It represents that place between idea and fruition, between thought and materialization, between hope and creation. That's when life appears to be in limo as if it has come to a standstill but that is not actually so. This is the period when things are taking shape subtly however since nothing is apparent, it is a dreadful period.
For Thine is Life is For Thine is the poem is thus grounded in fears and frustrations which often lead to sin and despair. But the poet has tried to overcome this with wit and beauty. This beauty lies in the surreal imagery of the poem that helps in highlighting fears while at the same time offers some hope for their permanent resolution. This hollowness that Eliot talks about did not only reside in men like Kurtz but can also be found in all of us in different forms. It can be found in the shallowness of our prayers, the emptiness of our worshipping and also in our impatience.
References
C.K. Stead, The New Poetic: Yeats to Eliot (Penguin, 1967 edn), 167-70
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