The Hollow

In the middle of upstate New York lays a town called Sleepy Hollow. It has dark and foggy nights, perfect for spirits to linger. The Headless Horseman, the spirit that haunts Sleepy Hollow is waiting; waiting for a man named Ichabod Crane. Crane has done nothing wrong to the horseman, in fact he is frightened of him; but the horseman likes to kill for revenge. Not revenge on Ichabod but revenge on the town that killed the horseman. Sadly Ichabod is in that town and finds himself at the wrong…

The Hollow Hills We all know the tales of King Arthur from British folklore. But, have you heard the story told in a magician’s perspective. Mary Stewart does an excellent job of recreating that well-known legend being told by the legendary Merlin the enchanter. She was born in Sunderland, England in 1916. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and later went on to get her Master’s Degree. Before she began writing about legends, she started out writing in the romantic genre of…

Throughout the short story “Soldier's Home”, and the poem “The Hollow Men”, Hemingway and Eliot’s use of a gloomy tone conveys how when soldiers return from war, they often feel detached from the people around them. After Krebs gets home from battle, he will occasionally run into another person who fought also. In this situation Krebs gets back the feeling of being “sickeningly frightened all the time” and falls into the pose of a soldier. Using such dark and gloomy words, Hemingway…

nearly as entrenched in nature as the inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow are; Brom, for example, is often compared to animals throughout the story, which portrays him in a much more favorable light than Ichabod is presented in. The reader can assume that the town of Sleepy Hollow represents America as it once was, a land where Dutch farmers could live richly off of the land but also a daunting and enigmatic place. The inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow are honest, hardworking people, and it is Ichabod whose…

Poem Summary The poem “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot talks about the struggles of the men/women in a special world. These people are called hollow men and ultimately represent many of the people in the real world. Eliot is trying to show the similarities of the hollow men to the people in the real world by saying they are lacking certain things such as happiness, love, and hope. The first section of the poem talks about the “hollow men” in this world. The hollow men have a “headpiece filled…

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by: Chris Grimly and Washington Irving How often do you read a short story for enjoyment anymore? You may be asking yourself that question, and the truth is, as a teenager, you don’t. So why did I read The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow? That’s a good question, there are many reasons someone would read this story. One reason could be that your 9th mod Honors English teacher told you to read it and write a 2 page reader response about it. However, I am going to tell you…

Burton’s most common film Sleepy Hollow is generally recognized for the way Burton displays the male and female characters. Burton displays that female and male characters have the same similarities. Traditionally, male characters may be recognized as having to be the strong hero, and females are supposed to be weak and the damsel in distress. However, in Sleepy Hollow, the main character Ichabod Crane is described as a masculine man that also has a feminine side to him. For example, Ichabod is…

The story supposedly takes place in a Post- Revolutionary War America. It is one out of few stories by Irving that actually takes place in America. In the town of Sleepy Hollow, the people are described as soporific humans, not really questioning much. It is as if they are under a spell, according to the narrator in the book. The first couple of paragraphs in the book provide detail about a mist. This mist is supposedly…

Our World Today (An analysis of Hollow Men…) “Consisting in the theme, implicit throughout the latter, of debasement through the rejection of good, of despair through consequent guilt” (Smith). The poem Hollow Men was written by T. S. Eliot. In this poem, there are many life lessons that can be extracted and applied to our lives. Through this poem, it is easy to realize what can be learned as we experience this life. Because of this, it is easier to rely on the poem to create a new way to live…

The well-known naturalist and writer, Muir points out some specific details of the area of California in his book Twenty Hill Hollow. Here he examines how we write what we can and emit what we know by stating, “Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature”, giving us the purpose of writing and how it stimulates our understanding of nature that we somehow are part of it. (14) As a T-W, California authors…