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"The Hollow Men" resonates with the modernist era, capturing the sense of alienation and existential angst prevailing in society. It reflects a loss of faith, both in traditional values and in the ability of humanity to find meaning and purpose in life.
“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.
The Hollow Men follows the otherworldly journey of the spiritually dead. These "hollow men" have the realisation, humility, and acknowledgement of their guilt and their status as broken, lost souls.
- T. S. Eliot
- 1925
'The Hollow Men' depicts men in a desolate world, symbolizing their barren existence through imagery of broken columns, glass, and stones. The poem, evoking images of heaven and a shadowy presence, is narrated by a collective speaker.
- Female
- October 9, 1995
- Poetry Analyst And Editor
The world’s ending with a “whimper” rather than a “bang” echoes the “quiet and meaningless” whispering of the hollow men in section I. It also implies that life in the modern world is no longer lived with purpose, passion, faith, or courage.
Nov 29, 2021 · "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 (which Eliot despised: compare "Gerontion"), hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing ...
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The Hollow Men (1925) ‘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’ are trapped in a limbo ...
