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The poem reflects on the responsibilities and opportunities that come with political leadership. It explores themes of justice, equality, and compassion, offering a critique of existing power structures while also imagining a more ideal society.
T. S. Eliot. 1888 –. 1965. A penny for the Old Guy. I. We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men. Leaning together. Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when. We whisper together. Are quiet and meaningless. As wind in dry grass. Or rats’ feet over broken glass. In our dry cellar. Shape without form, shade without colour.
The phrase refers to a scarecrow standing in a field, another “hollow” man stuffed with straw with whom the speaker identifies. Choosing to wear the disguise of a scarecrow, as well as other disguises, symbolizes the speaker’s alienation from other human beings and the inability to exercise personal agency, behaving instead only “as the ...
" The Hollow Men " (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post– World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles, hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. [2] .
“The Hollow Men” is a poem by the American modernist poet T.S. Eliot, first published in 1925. Uncanny and dream-like, “The Hollow Men” describes a desolate world, populated by empty, defeated people.
Published in 1925, 'The Hollow Men' is a poem of its time. The poem presents the hopeless and pessimistic mood of the postwar world as the war led to nothing but destruction and bloodshed, leading to disillusionment with traditional values and institutes.
‘The Hollow Men’ is a major poem written by Eliot between The Waste Land in 1922 and his conversion to Christianity in 1927.
the hollow men. Mistah Kurtz-he dead. I We are the hollow men we are the stuffed men leaning together headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless as wind in dry grass or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar.
‘The Hollow Men’ is a poem of boundaries. Published in 1925, halfway through the modernist decade of the 1920s, it was T. S. Eliot’s one major poem between The Waste Land in 1922 and his conversion to Christianity in 1927. Alongside this analysis of the poem, we recommend our discussion of the symbolism of Eliot’s poem.
We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men. Leaning together. Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when. We whisper together. Are quiet and meaningless. As wind in dry grass.
