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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.
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A modernist poem by T.S. Eliot that depicts a desolate and empty world after the First World War. The poem explores themes of death, despair, and the twilight kingdom through imagery, symbols, and poetic devices.
Read the full text of T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Hollow Men, with annotations that explain the allusions, imagery, and themes. Learn about the epigraph, the contrast between past and present, and the motif of lifelessness.
" 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] .
- T. S. Eliot
- 1925
A poem that captures the despair and emptiness of the postwar generation in a symbolic and surreal language. Read the poem, learn about its themes, poetic form, and historical context, and explore an expert's insights on Poem Analysis.
- Female
- October 9, 1995
- Poetry Analyst And Editor
‘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.
