Hollow Men In Dante's Inferno

honest with his beloved Beatrice , who eventually went to the other kingdom , and Dante had to pass through the stages of purgatory to purify his soul from that guilt .On the other hand Beatrice had crossed to the other kingdom while Dante is unable to stop and stare at the eyes of Beatrice , That represented the guiding star for the hollow men , but they are guideless , because they couldn’t get a hold of it .Therefore , their movement is hubless , guideless which results in a paralised motion done by the hollow men. They couldn’t look into the eyes of those who have crossed to death’s other kingdom. The hollow men are even stuck in what is assimilated to Dante’s Limbo a place of despair where there is no movement ahead .
Due to their inability to look into the eyes of the others and missing have lost their guiding star, The{ IV} part of the poem reveals one fact about their failure as following the Lines : “The eyes are not there / There are no eyes / In this valley of dying star”(The
Hollow Men52/54)The image of the eye as the guide is supposed to guide them however the hollow men were unable to get a glance of that star. They mentioned through the speaker of the poem that the stars are dead and in nowhere. Thus, Eliot seems pessimistic and expressed the frustration that was felt after that the only redeeming symbol is lost. Drew commented on the despairing effect of that lost eyes in the following lines “What the poet feels to be a redeeming symbol has appeared but only to be lost again :hence the despair created in the poem”(Drew ,1949,93). Consequently ,Any hope that the eyes can appear again is demolished by the fact that the hollow men are surrendered to despair and defeat , by the compulsion to avoid any effort to struggle , and the eternal failure to take an action of either good or bad , which eventually led to the collapse by whimpering announcement of utter extinction.