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"The Hollow Men" resonates with the modernist era, capturing the sense of alienation and existential angst prevailing in society. It reflects a loss of faith, both in traditional values and in the ability of humanity to find meaning and purpose in life.
" The Hollow Men " (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post– World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles, hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. [2] .
T.S. Eliot. 96. 'The Hollow Men' depicts men in a desolate world, symbolizing their barren existence through imagery of broken columns, glass, and stones. The poem, evoking images of heaven and a shadowy presence, is narrated by a collective speaker.
“The Hollow Men” is a poem by the American modernist poet T.S. Eliot, first published in 1925. Uncanny and dream-like, “The Hollow Men” describes a desolate world, populated by empty, defeated people.
The first section of the poem describes the “hollow men” referenced in the poem’s title and introduces a contrast between the past, established in the epigraph, and the present. Modernist poets focused on life in the post-World War I world and the effects of mass industrialization on society and the individual.
the hollow men. Mistah Kurtz-he dead. I We are the hollow men we are the stuffed men leaning together headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless as wind in dry grass or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar.
The Hollow Men (1925) Lyrics. Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy. I. We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men. Leaning together. Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried...
‘The Hollow Men’ is a poem of boundaries. Published in 1925, halfway through the modernist decade of the 1920s, it was T. S. Eliot’s one major poem between The Waste Land in 1922 and his conversion to Christianity in 1927. Alongside this analysis of the poem, we recommend our discussion of the symbolism of Eliot’s poem.
The Hollow Men, by T. S. Eliot. Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy. I. We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men. Leaning together. Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when. We whisper together. Are quiet and meaningless. As wind in dry grass. Or rats' feet over broken glass. In our dry cellar.
Poems. 'The Hollow Men' With Eliot's own reflections and an edited selection of the contemporary reviews, English and American.
