What Is The Mood Of The Hollow Men

The poem “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot is truly one of a kind. It’s use of symbolic language, analogies and powerful diction created a depressing plot for the reader’s imagination. When using these writing techniques the writer sets up their piece of work for comparison to daily life, through things such as emotions, intellect and politics. Making the poem easily understandable and giving the writer a way of connecting to their reader(s). Emotional pieces of written work are usually the simplest to understand. Especially when the writer uses common language or stories to get the reader(s) thinking. In “The Hollow Men” T.S. Eliot uses a recognizable children’s song and transformed it into a horrific melody. The song “The Mulberry Bush” is replaced with “Here we go round the Prickly pear Prickly pear Prickly pear here we go round the Prickly pear at five o’clock in the morning.” The thought of running around a sharp, serrated fruit at risk of getting severely injured while thinking of the pleasant tune a Mother may sing to her Child creates a harsh impact on one’s emotions. For those who may have heard the loving song before, sang it or thought of the images created by the tune. …show more content…
In the poem, T.S. Eliot used a verse from a Christian prayer “For Thine is the Kingdom.” Before this line it read “And the act falls the shadow.” He used a dark symbol, a shadow, and then added a prayer after that. Making a sort of “praying for mercy” typed scenario. This helps connect the reader(s) to the poem by getting them to think of scenarios such as these that have occurred in their life. It also gets those who are non-Christians to do “research” on the diction used in order to make sense of the poem from their