Tori Laughland Laughland 1
English 2 Pre-AP
Period 4
October 23, 2012
The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men, when I read that I pictured men who experienced some form of a traumatic event in their life and now longer show emotion or are “hollow”. The first section of the poem talks about how they were leaning together, portraying scarecrows, but they feel that everything they say or do has no meaning. They haven’t crossed, so people remember them as “The Hollow Men”. The second section talks about how they don’t like to look at people who made it to the “deaths dream kingdom”, I guess that means heaven or hell. The third section talks about the setting, the setting is like a desert, with cacti, and stones. Then all of a sudden the men feel this desire to kiss someone but unfortunately they are unable to. The fourth section is talks about the same stuff the second sections does, how they don’t want to be looked at or don’t want to look at people either. The fifth section talks about a shadow, and how it has paralyzed or controlled their actions, they don’t show any emotion or response. The ending of the poem talks about how the world would end, and you would think that it would end with some explosion but to them it just ends with a whisper. There’s allusion at the beginning of the poem, Mistan Kurtz (hopelessness) “We whisper together are quiet and meaningless as wind in dry grass or rats’ feet over broken glass” which is a simile. Repetition at the end of the poem, “This is the way the world ends.” It shows that the poem ends soft instead of abruptly. “Leaned together” is imagery showing that all the men are intertwined and stuck in one place of their lives.
Introduction: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER T.S.Eliot, The Hollow Men (95-98). 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…
Wojdak English 11 Block 3 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” vs “The Hollow Men” Isaiah Fois After WWI, humanity could only depicted as destroyed and at the brink of total depression. T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Hollow Men” both illustrate this idea. They portray the world as a physical and social wasteland without purpose. Both poems are similar in their views of the current and future status of humanity. They both make heavy use of poetic devices to reflect…
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statement in relation to the form and feature of The Hollow Men; Journey of the Magi, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The Modern writer attempts to journey into the subconscious mind but is held back by reality that is the desolation of the war and the chains of religion. The statement that emotion is expressed through external factors is to an extent, true and this can be demonstrated in T.S. Eliot’s poems Journey of the Magi, 1927 and The Hollow Men, 1925 and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock…
this could reinforce the idea that Cheryl has not experienced life and so even the natural elements are turning against her. In Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’, the manmade quality of war is negatively portrayed through the motif of a scarecrow, and can be applied to World War One and modern warfare. The idea that ‘we are the hollow men/ We are the stuffed men’ suggests an industrial or mechanical process in which something is filled manually; the imagery here has negative connotations as they have ‘shape…
authorize MP to use hollow points, one could say that with no round in the chamber and the use of ball ammo, the risk assessment for a MP is very great. I’m sure that DACP are performing their duties with a loaded weapon. And even Civilian police on US Army bases are now authorized to load their weapons with jacketed hollow-point bullets, (Mother Jones, 2010). It is amazing that before MP were authorized to have a round in the chamber, we were first authorized to carry hollow points! These rounds…
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refers to the social economic and political equality of the sexes. It had been established in the world and receives representation by various institutions dedicated to preserve women’s rights and interests. During the emergence of the western history, men were reserved for the public life while women were left to carry out domestic chores. They had no right to ownership of the property, getting education or even take part in the activities of the community. Towards the end of the 19th century some part…
the fifth line of the first stanza, we see these afternoons described as ‘hollows’. They are not anxiously awaited moments in the day where the parents get to see their children shine with happiness: they seem to be empty gaps, barely filled in with an unpleasant trip that the children probably pestered them endlessly for. Developing on the metaphorical use of ‘Afternoons’ in the title that I have suggested, the word ‘hollows’ here could be being used to describe a much larger period of time. The age…
blue for the past 162 years. They're known simply as the "blue people" in the hills and hollows around Troublesome and Ball Creeks. Most lived to their 80s and 90s without serious illness associated with the skin discoloration. For some, though, there was a pain not seen in lab tests. That was the pain of being blue in a world that is mostly shades of white to black. There was always speculation in the hollows about what made the blue people blue: heart disease, a lung disorder, the possibility proposed…