The Hollow

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot) 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 his most quoted poems of all time. Eliot believed language was his material and his own language as it was spoken around him was his greatest asset. The poem is broken up into sections marked by roman numerals heading each one numbered one through five. Each section in the…

relate to this cat’s name because, in general, people have an identity they 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…

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 paragraph. This is carefully…

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…

The allure of a scary movie comes from the thrilling and oddly addictive terror of the unknown. Watch your deepest fears on screen, and let your imagination run wild with these Netflix scary movies. “Sleepy Hollow” (1999) Scare scale: 6/10 This is a movie that’s based on Irving’s’ tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, in which Ichabod, played by Johnny Depp, is a NY detective who is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate multiple murders of people who are found headless in the woods.…

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has Imagination, Individuality, and Interest in things outside the realm of the “normal” like ghosts/spirits. The legend of Sleepy Hollow is about a headless horseman that comes out at midnight to find his head and to seek revenge. They say that the reason he doesn’t have a head anymore is because he was in the war and they cut his head off. The legend of sleepy hollow story came up when they wanted to scare people into thinking they…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Compare and Contrast Essay Have you ever read a short story and then went to a performance on it as well? Almost every time, there are things that are different and the same. In the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, there are numerous times when the Setting, Theme, Characters, Plot, and Conflict are different and the same. Most of the performance and story is the same. But, there are still things that are different. For Example, the setting in the short story of the Legend…

Saydie Uddin Per. 2 4/11/17 Packet 12 Annotations: 1152-1155 BP Prelude 1156 Journey of Magi 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…

Because World War I 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]…

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…