Sleepy Hollow

1157 1-3 1159 1-3 1160-1162 BP Hollow 1163 1166 1-3 1167 1-11 1168 vocab 1169 style Writing Assignments: Write: Three messages from Hollow Thesis: “The Hollow Men” by T.S Eliot, represents three messages. POV #1: T.S Eliot, wrote “The Hollow Men,” and brought forth the message that today’s individuals have become hollow. POV #2: “The Hollow Men”, by T.S Eliot, expresses the message that we are afraid to die POV #3: T.S Eliot created, “The Hollow Men”, and gave the message…

In T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” Eliot details and laments about the meaninglessness pitiful existence of men, whom he describes as hollow, and the overall decline of contemporary society. The characterization of the hollow men perfectly fits many of the characters who exist in the world of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Indeed, both authors explore the innate emptiness of human life and the ignorance of humanity to its emptiness throughout their literary pieces. Such ignorance causes…

eflects to us connotations of purgatory as it seems the hollow men cannot reach this kingdom, and are stuck in the middle. He also again refers to his previous scarecrow imagery with “deliberate disguises, Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves”, and language such as this shows us a recurring theme in the poem, as Eliot wishes to portray them as empty and emotionless, as scarecrows. The structure in this section is very unique as the rhyme scheme is ABCACBA in the second half of the first…

In his poem We Wear the Mask, Laurence Dunbar speaks rather elusively on the topic of human deceit. More specifically, the underlying message of the human tendency to hide emotions in suffering, reveals itself in the 15 line poem. Explored in the first two lines of the poem, Dunbar speaks about a figurative mask; a mask covering the face, hiding cheeks and eyes, with the mask taking over with its fake happiness, all a subdued lie. Continuing through the poem, the second stanza expresses grief…

Once faced with it one battles with morals and end up loosing all sense of sanity. Conrad writes that that Marlow can see how Kurtz nearing the end of his life, “He struggled with himself, too” (Conrad 135). In the poem The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot hollow men are showed to be at a constant struggle with themselves. Just like Kurtz and many of the other characters in both Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now they are shown to be in limbo between heaven and hell. These people are shown to…

keep themselves and a side they don’t want others to see. Therefore one can agree on Eliot’s representation of these multiple personalities because one holds different personalities that rely on where they are and who they are with. The poem, “The Hollow Men” uses many different examples of symbolism. Eliot speaks of “death's other kingdom” (line 16) and “death's dream kingdom” (line 32). The “dream kingdom” symbolizes Heaven, and the “other kingdom” symbolizes Hell. This juxtaposition is…

decimated not only a continent but also a generation, T.S. Eliot observes the consequences of such horrors on the men of his generation. He implies in “The Hollow Men” that the survivors, the ones who come home, are the ones who lose salvation and become trapped in a living purgatory due to a loss of faith. Initially, Eliot establishes the “hollow men” as weakened men without sustenance. Their lives are void of any significance, and they are “Leaning together / Headpiece[s] filled with straw”…

wrote the The Hollow Men which revolves around the idea of how war affects and devastates society. The overall tone of this poem is grim and foreboding. The theme of The Hollow Men expressed through imagery, similes, allusions, and metaphors is that war ruins men and society. Historically The Hollow Men was written in response to World War I and its effects on society. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a Harvard graduate and an extremely prolific writer for his time. The poem the The Hollow Men is one of…

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…

cycle he has been trapped in as this scene foreshadows his suicide. Looking into TS Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” as a whole the poem acts as a representation of the small town midwest. In the poem, when Eliot writes
 “We are the hollow men
 We are the stuffed men
 Leaning together
 Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
 Our dried voices, when
 Are quiet and meaningless
 As wind in dry glass”
the hollow men represent all the people stuck living in Pawhuska and other small rural towns…