The Hollow Men Analysis
(Full and Empty at The same Time)
Three messages from The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot
In the beginning of the poem The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot starts off with an allusions to help him contrast the past with the present. Eliot’s allusions created a distinctive, dreamlike world for a reader to explore. Also they reflected his theory of poetry, this story doesn’t reflect T.S Eliot’s life, but a bunch of past literature was a key source in writing his story. Three main messages from The Hollow Men are people are all full and stuffed at the same time, we wear masks to hide and fool people and we don’t look people we love in the eyes and tell the what we really need to tell them.
The first message of this poem is that people are full and stuffed at the same …show more content…
There's a lot of people who can’t look people in the eyes when they want to say something, they have a lot of lies people tell other people to get away from the truth. When people get so used to lying, they just can’t stop, then they get used to doing it all the time and they don't want to tell the truth and be the type of person people want to be around. When people get really good at lying through their teeth is becoming a problem that nobody wants to have out or around you. Most people don’t even want to look the other person they are looking at in the eye or it will come to the point that they know that they lie all the time and there is just no point in being around them. ‘the eyes are not here, there are no eyes here in this valley of dying stars in this hollow valley this broken jaw of our lost kingdom” (page 1165, lines 52-56).
Clearly the poem The Hollow Men have very good messages. The three main ones are, we don’t want to look people we love in the eyes, people wear mask to hide and fool people and finally people are stuffed and full at the same
Three messages from The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot
In the beginning of the poem The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot starts off with an allusions to help him contrast the past with the present. Eliot’s allusions created a distinctive, dreamlike world for a reader to explore. Also they reflected his theory of poetry, this story doesn’t reflect T.S Eliot’s life, but a bunch of past literature was a key source in writing his story. Three main messages from The Hollow Men are people are all full and stuffed at the same time, we wear masks to hide and fool people and we don’t look people we love in the eyes and tell the what we really need to tell them.
The first message of this poem is that people are full and stuffed at the same …show more content…
There's a lot of people who can’t look people in the eyes when they want to say something, they have a lot of lies people tell other people to get away from the truth. When people get so used to lying, they just can’t stop, then they get used to doing it all the time and they don't want to tell the truth and be the type of person people want to be around. When people get really good at lying through their teeth is becoming a problem that nobody wants to have out or around you. Most people don’t even want to look the other person they are looking at in the eye or it will come to the point that they know that they lie all the time and there is just no point in being around them. ‘the eyes are not here, there are no eyes here in this valley of dying stars in this hollow valley this broken jaw of our lost kingdom” (page 1165, lines 52-56).
Clearly the poem The Hollow Men have very good messages. The three main ones are, we don’t want to look people we love in the eyes, people wear mask to hide and fool people and finally people are stuffed and full at the same