Explication Of The Hollow Men

The poems are based on emotions for example in “We grow accustomed to the dark” and in line “when light is put away” what I think the author means by this is that she does not see the light in much things anymore and she has gotten so used to her depressing emotion that she's used to this. In the “Acquainted with the night” also shows us that the author is sort of in a depressed state of mind and sees it as a companion and from the author's frequent use of “I” in every line we can see that he is alone. While in “Acquainted with the night” we read that there are people in the poem but they do not honestly mean much since the people do not actually interact with the author and in “We grow accustomed to the dark” they mention a neighbor but he

“The Devils Language” by Marilyn Dumont and “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot are quite similar. They both critique their culture in the ways they see it. Nothing Is missing from each authors poem because it is critiquing the world as they have seen and learned from different experiences in their lives. Marilyn Dumont writes about “The great white way” (pg365, line 4) or white culture and the way that aboriginal culture is snuffed out or looked down upon. T.S. Eliot writes about people being too cowardly to be good or bad and also what happens after we die. Therefore, Marilyn Dumont and T.S. Eliot’s works are similar in the way that they see the wrongs in their cultures.

The �redness� symbolized life because red is associated with life. The next usage of symbolism was in the seventh line. �The spikes of the crocus� referred to a flower called the crocus. The crocus was often the first of the spring flowers to bloom so it is a symbol of the return or rebirth of life in spring. �The spikes� (of the crocus) represent the pains of rebirth. This would be especially fitting since the line before said �The sun is hot on my neck as I observe�. With both lines combined, this could be interpreted as the poet observing the pains of life. Later in the poem, in line eleven, �under ground are the brains of men� symbolizes the downfall of human knowledge since the brain is associated with intelligence and underground can be taken literally as �lower that dirt�. Hence, this can be translated into the statement: �Not only is man�s intelligence lower than dirt�. The poet, in my opinion, is stating that today, men are no longer knowledgeable. And then the line after that, the twelfth line, �Eaten by maggots.� further emphasizes this. Finally, at the end of the poem in lines thirteen to

Literally, the poem is talking about an upcoming storm and how the speaker is preparing for it. Rich uses imagery about the storm to make it seem like the speaker wants to protect themselves. For example, “I leave the book on a pillowed chair,/ And walk from window to closed window, watching”. Someone can infer that the speaker was disturbed by the storm and wanted to simply go and look at what was happening through the windows. However, that is not what the speaker is really doing. In this case, the storm is representing how problems in people's lives disturb them temporarily. The speaker having to leave the book on a pillowed chair means that they will go back to it eventually which is the same when it comes to problems. Problems are a dent in someone's life, but they can't keep piercing through. The speaker is not going from one closed to another to watch the storm but to show that people avoid a problem by looking at it with a shut eye. They are not opening their eyes or the shutters to face the problem. The speaker also says, “I draw the curtains as the sky goes black”. This makes the reader infer that the speaker is literally closing the shutters so they do not see the storm. However, metaphorically, this shows how people act when they face problems. When things take a wrong turn like the storm going dark, people tend to shut down and not face it. When something starts to get serious people become nervous about what will happen. Another piece of imagery is, “And set a match to candles sheathed in glass,/ Against the keyhole draught”. The speaker seems to be warming up or maybe the storm affected the electricity so they have to use candles. However, the candles represent the light of hope the

In T.S. Eliot’s most famous poem The Wasteland, a bleak picture of post-war London civilization is illuminated. The inhabitants of Eliot’s wasteland are living in a morally bankrupt and spiritually lost society. Through fragmented narration, Eliot recalls tales of lost love, misplaced lust, forgone spirituality, fruitless pilgrimages, and the “living dead”- those who shuffle through life without a care. These tales are the personal attempts of each person to fulfill the desires which plague them, though none ever stop to consider that what they want may not be what they need, nor do they consider why it is they feel they must do these things. Through studies in Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective

In various occasions, the human race tends to make several mistakes throughout the span of their lives. In the poem, The Hollow Men, written by Thomas Stearns Eliot, is not exactly the most uplifting of poetic literature. Although, the poem does have some underlying value to its notion; it emphasizes moral values, responsibility, and a depiction of the aftermath of World War I.

The end of The Hollow Men can only be the beginning of a deep and long reflection for thoughtful readers. T.S. Eliot, who always believed that in his end is his beginning, died and left his verse full of hidden messages to be understood, and codes to be deciphered. It is this complexity, which is at the heart of modernism as a literary movement, that makes of Eliot’s poetry very typically modernist. As Ezra Pound once famously stated, Eliot truly did “modernize himself”. Although his poetry was subject to important transformations over the course of his

Line 60’s “tumid river” is the Acheron of Dante’s Inferno, which, in line with Greek mythology, was on the margins of hell. The hollow men of the poem ritualistically gather on the beach of the Acheron, permanently stuck without death or any form of crossing over. In addition to Inferno, the poem alludes to Paradiso; described in line 64, the awe-inspiring “multifoliate rose” appears as a “twilight kingdom” another distant release the hollow men long for, yet is impossible for them to attain. An implication from a line of Julius Caesar further characterizes the setting of “The Hollow Men; “Between the motion and the act,” is a nightmarish state wherein the hollow men

The poem by T.S. Elliot, The Hollow Men and the novel by Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness represent both nonchalance and insouciance. Both Elliot's hollow men and Conrad's Station Manager present an insightful rationale and emotional indifference as well as being bereft of discernible humanity. The two pieces underscore the crucial characteristics of both the station manger and the hollow men by exaggerating the details of their empty eyes as well as "death's other kingdom," (III.8) of which they both reside in, their obscure characteristics and their emptiness.

The last area of The Hollow Men opens with a nursery rhyme substituting the `mulberry hedge' by the `prickly pear'. This component suggests the desert flora, abridging every one of the elements of death's other/dream/dusk kingdom: dryness, aridity, isolation, repugnance and stationary nature. The empty men go 'round it at five o'clock in the morning. This roundabout development depicts a picture of kids moving as an inseparable unit and singing like in a customary, custom diversion. The time when this happens, when nighttime and dimness disperse and the sun starts to sparkle, additionally has an exceptional essentialness. That is the season of restoration, of coming back to life, of trust in the vacant men. Be that as it may, every one of the components disclosed appear to deride the empty men's circumstance, as though the kids' melody did not need to welcome the daylight, but rather to drive it off and bring indefinite quality once more. This custom of `interruption of life' is produced inside of the remaining verses of Part V.

This line in the poem symbolizes how Kurtz was very similar to the hollow souled men that were depressed by how their lives how and will turn out. The poem speaks of the uncivilized hollow men. In the Heart of Darkness, the uncivilized are described as ignorant throughout the entire book. They are full people but others feel as if they are not complete humans “We are the hollow men; we are the stuffed men” (Eliot 1-2). For example, when the uncivilized natives spoke their sound meant nothing. Kurtz came from a civilized background but still understood the natives and what they were experiencing. He was not hollow because he was able to meander in civilization and lived with abnormal people. T.S. Eliot is describing the other side he is making a clear point about Kurtz. “The Hollow Men” got its name because throughout the poem Kurtz is referred to as “hollow shame” and “hollow at the

According to the first section of the poem, a bundle of Hollow Men are inclining together like scarecrows. Every little thing about them is as dry as the Sahara Desert, including their voices and their bodies. All that they say and do is mindless. They exist in a state like Hell, aside from they were excessively bashful and weak, making it impossible to confer the brutal demonstrations that would have picked up them access to Hell. They have not crossed the River Styx to make it to either Heaven or Hell. The general population who have traversed recollect these folks as "Hallow men."

The speaker refers to the night as his acquaintance. This implies that the speaker has a lot of experience with the night, but has not become friends with it. Thus, because even the night, which has been alongside the speaker in comparison to anything or anyone else, is not a companion to the speaker, the idea of loneliness is enhanced. In addition, “rain” (2) is used to symbolize the speaker’s feelings of gloom and grief, because there is continuous pouring of the rain, which is unlikely to stop. In line 3, “city light” is used to convey the emotional distance between the speaker and society. Although the speaker has walked extensively, he has not yet interacted with anyone – thus distancing himself even further from society. Moreover, the moon, in lines 11 to 12, is used as a metaphor of the speaker’s feelings. The speaker feels extremely distant from society that he feels “unearthly.” The idea of isolation and loneliness in this poem is used as the theme of the poem; and the use of the setting and metaphors underscores the idea that the speaker feels abandoned from society.

In T.S Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men,” the speaker illustrates the loss of identity and the absence of substance within the hollow men due to the depletion of faith in religion following World War I.

The two passages of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” contain a lot of similar and contrasting ideas. The darkness controlling thoughts and actions of the people in the Congo parallels the shadow of fear and inevitable death that hangs over the Hollow men. The Hollow men’s fallacious gods has them trapped in a death without a white light at the end of the tunnel. Kurtz's ruthlessness from his passion for materialistic things and power consumes him with hopeless despair. Both works convey the effects of darkness and how this darkness can change one's reality, and this depicts the theme of how the separation from one's core belief and structure can unleash their malevolence through the use of symbolism and