The Hollow Men

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 evidently part of their despair because the men cannot achieve the positive dream, so they are sentenced to go to the other place of everlasting torture. He describes Heaven with, “a tree swinging/ And voices… / In the wind's singing” (lines 26-28) Heaven seems enlightening and beautiful but cannot be attained, so hope is lost because Heaven is “More distant and more solemn/ Than a fading star” (lines 29-30). Furthermore, the fading star mentioned in these lines…

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…

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…

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 structured to show…

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…

Beverly is aware of this 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…

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…

headed by artistic director Andrea Bruciati, art historian, selected her work The Hollow Men to represent Montenegro in the event Mediterranea XVII Young Artists Biennale in Milano, 2015. September 2015 she had a solo exhibition called The Hollow Men-Burning Way in the the Kolarac Foundation Gallery in Belgrade. Also, she had a solo exhibition The Hollow Men-Burning Way in a former factory hall Radoje Dakić, in Podgorica, as a part of celebration of 30th anniversary of FIAT in September 2015.…

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 be so…