Loss Of Identity In T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men

Everyday we see more and more students bullied because of their appearance or what they're wearing. By implementing school uniforms, we can greatly decrease the number of students who are bullied every day. In the article, “Appearances are Destructive,” Mark Mathabane (the author) tells us how his sisters were bullied because what they wore was “unusual.” “They were constantly taunted… they often

The poet use We to symbolize the collective sense when he says “We are the hollow men/We are the stuffed men”( in lines 1-2 and 17-18).we can relate those lines to the proles because the were allowed, men .In the (lines 11-12 )the poet want to capture the reader's attention so he separated it from the other parts it also reminds me of Winston in the ministry of love , “Shape without form,shade without colour, /paralyses grove, gesture without motion” (Eliot 11-12when O'Brien asked Winston into looks at himself in the mirror he was a living dead he didn't looked human when he was getting tortured.In the beginning of the poem in line 6-7 Eliot states that “we whisper together/ Are quiet and meaningless” those two phrases reminded me of Winston when he was writing in his diary and that he was writing but no one will see what he wrote maybe someone in the future . He felt like he was writing to himself and for the hope of the world that he lived

School Uniforms are being pushed more and more in schools, but what is commonly thought of when the words “school uniform” is said? For most people the picture of children in the same colored uniforms gathered in front of a Catholic Church or a private school is displayed in their mind. This picture is one of the many problems with school uniforms. Instead of being seen as an individual, students are seen as just another kid in a uniform attending a fancy private school. The students cannot develop the self-expression that is crucial to their development at this age. Uniforms are thought to create a more protected campus and learning environment, however, if someone wants to bully someone else, clothes are not going to stop them. The cost, which is usually seen as a pro, can actually be more than people anticipate. As one can see, in the best interest of any student, school uniforms should not be made part of the dress code.

Many of the repeated lines share connections to other texts. Eliot repeats the idea of a ‘kingdom’ (lines 30, 37, 45,55 and 64) to depict the location of the hollow men is a desolate wasteland. This connects to Bible as in a world without God man will suffer. This is a way in which Eliot attempts to illustrate the consequences of failing to abide by religious doctrine and morality. Man will live in a barren world without salvation and God.

Everyone has their rights to believe whatever they wish. We as the people of the United States should regard people’s rights and how they choose to use those rights. Since we are in a democratic republic nation and we have freedom nobody should judge others based on their beliefs or opinions since it is their right, which the constitution grants them. A person who respects these things puts them in the category of a good responsible citizen.

In The Hollow Men, the poem creates the story of individuals that are empty while residing in an alternate world that portrays itself as dark and can represent the emptiness of the stuffed men. They are indeed stuffed but it may not be in straw as customary, maybe in regrets and sins since this poem alludes more than once to bible-like stories or bits and pieces. The darker world they live in may be the purgatory of unhappiness since they did nothing but bad and did not repent. Which brings up the topic if they were just a poem fantasy or if The Hollow Men are a warning and bring out a hidden meaning of repent and the need for this redemption by the celestial beings that have the authority to forgive. Since they too have a tragic flaw of selfishness,

Another famous and influential work from T.S. Eliot is The Hollow Men. Likely influenced by World War I, T. S. Eliot portrays a disconnect from humanity and a disillusionment with typical beliefs as a source of human despair in The Hollow Men. The “hollow men” that the work is centered around are depicted devoid of any human qualities that might provide them a relief from despair, such as hope or faith. As is written in “T. S. Eliot's Indigenous Critical Concepts and 'The Hollow Men'” by Muhammad Khan Sangi and others, “In this poem the human beings have been shown devoid of the qualities of faith, moral strength, of personality, determination and that of humanity; they are like empty bodies, lacking all human virtues” (Sangi et al para 4). No matter how these qualities were lost to the individuals, the result is constant and predictable: the individuals feel an inescapable despair. When one has nothing to anticipate in life, no expectations or hopes, then life loses its meaning. This is the world that the hollow men live in perpetually. The entire work, as Sangi describes, “is a cry of despair unrelieved by hope. The peculiarity of the poem is that it is an inner drama with the utmost economy of words. The images echo the deadness of sensibility and the emptiness of hollow men who, like the effigies, are fit only for burning” (Sangi et al para 5). Again, the hollow men are depicted as worthless, insofar as they are compared to effigies, the only purpose of which is to be

By looking through a critical lens at T Stearns Eliot’s poetry in light of his 20th century, modernist context, much is revealed about his personal and the rapidly evolving societal beliefs of that era. Through his repeating motif of time and fragmentation throughout his poems, Eliot reveals the prevalent feelings of isolation while in society along with the need to hide one’s feelings and emotions in this degrading society. His exploration of the use of ambiguity and stream of consciousness by Eliot, which is a characteristic of modernist artists, allows his work to resound over decades while being interpreted and differently understood by every audience that encounters them.

Eliot was living in an era that people were facing a very hard time. World War changed a lot of things for everyone. A lot of cities were destructed and a lot of people were dead and so it was basically a wasteland, and for this reason Eliot was mostly concerned about the society as a whole and how they all want to move on from this mess and not how each individual could be a better

ridiculed for their beliefs. Is this a fair system? Every person has his or her own rituals and for

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

Published in 1859, “The lifted Veil” by George Eliot is an enthralling and complex tale of the supernatural. George Eliot, actually Mary Anne Evans by birth, was a leading novelist, editor, and critic of the Victorian era who went by a pen name, so she could write freely without the pressures of following the conventions of female writers. The short story she wrote is set predominantly in England and revolves around the conflicts that Latimer, the second son of a wealthy middle class banker, experiences during the course of his life -- both ordinary and extraordinary. The most notable element of the story is the emergence of Latimer’s superadded awareness which allows him both the ability to read the minds of others who are nearby and to experience highly detailed visions of the future. This mental power creates a multitude of unusual conflicts which Eliot uses to characterize Latimer and his split conscious through her employment of duality in the story.

Most first time readers of Eliot's work would, probably, agree that his poems read as bleak and depressing. They would also say that many of his poems portray society as having a terminal illness, but when we look deeper you can see that amid the anguish not all is lost and there is hope to be found among the ruins. "The Wasteland", is an amalgamation of fragmented images that are disturbing and, yet, at times beautifully poetic. The juxtaposition of the ugly landscape and the lyricism with which it is conveyed lend the poem an

Diction helps create the emotion within the poem, while paradox helps create an image of the speaker. The men are hollow because they don't actually live and they are stuffed because they are filled with straw, like scarecrows. Eliot's use of diction gives emotion to a speaker who is, from the description, lifeless. The use of the words “Meaningless,” “Distant,” and “Dead Land,” allow the reader to understand the speaker's dismal life. The descriptions“Headpiece filled with straw,” “Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves/in a field,” create an image of a scarecrow.

Eliot is seen to suggest that much like a scarecrow, the hollow men have a bleak and meaningless life, much like that of an existentialist, as their body is stuffed with nothingness described through the visual imagery of “headpiece filled with straw.” This comparison is also very metaphoric, as it indicates that the person is dead inside and so is lead to a life without emotion or passion to drive them, leaving the contemplation of their place within the