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Analysis (ai): "The Hollow Men" reflects the despair, apathy, and spiritual emptiness of a post-World War I society. Eliot uses imagery of decay and lifelessness to portray the hollow existence of these individuals, who lack purpose, emotion, and connection.
" 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] .
A modernist poem by T.S. Eliot that depicts a desolate and empty world after the First World War. The speaker describes the hollow men as dead, the twilight kingdom as the underworld, and the shadow as the gap between reality and existence.
A poem that captures the despair and emptiness of the postwar generation in the 20th century. Read the poem, learn about its themes, poetic form, and commentary by an expert.
Read the full text of The Hollow Men, a poem by T.S. Eliot that explores the themes of modernity, alienation, and death. Learn about the poem's allusions, literary devices, and annotations with Owl Eyes.
The Hollow Men (1925) T.S. Eliot. Track 31 on T.S. Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962. ‘The Hollow Men’ is a major poem written by Eliot between The Waste Land in 1922 and his conversion to...
A classic modernist poem that explores the themes of death, despair and the shadow of existence. Read the full text, analysis and commentary of The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot on PoetryVerse.
