This short poem talks of seeing the eyes of people but not their tears or feeling their suffering, therefore not truly helping them. Eliot talks of how we see a person's suffering, but hesitate, and are too late to act. Human beings worry too much about themselves and not enough about others.
The theme of this poem is paralysis and indecision in life......
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