After seeing darkness for so long at war, it is hard for the “hollow men” to see the light. In “death’s other Kingdom” the men the speaker is talking about are seen “not as lost / Violent souls, but only / As the hollow men / The stuffed men” (16-20). Eliot suggests that in hell, the hollow men are seen as men who have been hollowed out as they have lost faith in the good in life unlike the rest of society. Although the men cannot see the good, they struggle to believe the world is all-bad. In addition, the speaker attempts to understand life “Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act,” but then, “Falls the Shadow” (74-78). Eliot conveys that the shadow represents the hollow men and speaker’s spirits. Despite all the aspects in life, the men still felt nothing. As the speaker lived like everyone else, he still felt detached with no
After seeing darkness for so long at war, it is hard for the “hollow men” to see the light. In “death’s other Kingdom” the men the speaker is talking about are seen “not as lost / Violent souls, but only / As the hollow men / The stuffed men” (16-20). Eliot suggests that in hell, the hollow men are seen as men who have been hollowed out as they have lost faith in the good in life unlike the rest of society. Although the men cannot see the good, they struggle to believe the world is all-bad. In addition, the speaker attempts to understand life “Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act,” but then, “Falls the Shadow” (74-78). Eliot conveys that the shadow represents the hollow men and speaker’s spirits. Despite all the aspects in life, the men still felt nothing. As the speaker lived like everyone else, he still felt detached with no