The famous lines about Mistah Kurtz ( “Mistah Kurtz – he dead/ A penny for the old guy”) are used as the epigraph in poem The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot. The last line of the poem is “Not with a bang but a whimper” (“This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.”).
"Mistah Kurtz - he dead" and "A penny for the Old Guy" are references to Conrad's character and Guy Fawkes, respectively.
In 1605, Fawkes attempted to set fire to the English Houses of Parliament, and his straw-man effigy is burned every year on Guy Fawkes Night, November 5th, in the United Kingdom.
The last line of the poem is “Not with a bang but a whimper”
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