Tone Of The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men
Resemble the novella Heart of Darkness, T.S. Elliot’s poem The Hollow Men conveys the darker side of human nature. Allegorically, the poem acknowledges how hollow men are -- trying every possible way to achieve their high hopes not knowing that they are just empty aspirations that will lead them astray in the end. Through the utilization of imagery, tone and contradicted diction, Elliot is warning mankind to stop follow their noble pursuits blindly that only leave them “sightless, useless.”
In The Hollow Men, Elliot has used negative imagery to illustrate his admittance of human being is falling in “death’s dream kingdom.” For instance, the poem from the beginning to the end is filled with death symbol. “Dead …show more content…
In the poem, Elliot describes that hollow man scares to face the eyes of justice and of death, fearing to face the consequence for his misdeeds. This shows that from the beginning, we are selfish and hollow men that lack morals yet falsely think so highly of our existence …show more content…
In The Hollow Men, the tone is very dark and gloomy tone to show the hopelessness of hollow men as they fully realize the truth about pursuit an empty ambition. Elliot mentions, “Sightless, useless/The eyes reappear/ As the perpetual star/The hope only of empty men” to emphasizes his attitude toward hollow men as men that are helpless and confused, trying to find a way out of their misery and fear of cowardly death by finding lofty dreams that will never be achieve. According to Elliot, hollow men don’t have the morals that allow them to see “Between the desire and the spasm/ Between the potency and the existence/ Between the essence and the descent” and avoid to create their own destruction. Their own ambitions have blinded them in thinking that they are superior to everything in the world, that they can set their own rule on others to achieve the higher ambition of their own. The dark tone of the poem also represents the corruption of a man’s ambition, not only men’s hollow nature only. The depressing tone in passage three emphasizes the death of a society that is buried under false ambitions of men. The loneliness tone in the line “Is it like this/ In death’s other kingdom/ Walking alone/Form prayers to broken stone.” The tone shows Elliot regret of mankind’s tragic faith. He considers mankind, by choosing its lofty ambitions, is leading to its own
Resemble the novella Heart of Darkness, T.S. Elliot’s poem The Hollow Men conveys the darker side of human nature. Allegorically, the poem acknowledges how hollow men are -- trying every possible way to achieve their high hopes not knowing that they are just empty aspirations that will lead them astray in the end. Through the utilization of imagery, tone and contradicted diction, Elliot is warning mankind to stop follow their noble pursuits blindly that only leave them “sightless, useless.”
In The Hollow Men, Elliot has used negative imagery to illustrate his admittance of human being is falling in “death’s dream kingdom.” For instance, the poem from the beginning to the end is filled with death symbol. “Dead …show more content…
In the poem, Elliot describes that hollow man scares to face the eyes of justice and of death, fearing to face the consequence for his misdeeds. This shows that from the beginning, we are selfish and hollow men that lack morals yet falsely think so highly of our existence …show more content…
In The Hollow Men, the tone is very dark and gloomy tone to show the hopelessness of hollow men as they fully realize the truth about pursuit an empty ambition. Elliot mentions, “Sightless, useless/The eyes reappear/ As the perpetual star/The hope only of empty men” to emphasizes his attitude toward hollow men as men that are helpless and confused, trying to find a way out of their misery and fear of cowardly death by finding lofty dreams that will never be achieve. According to Elliot, hollow men don’t have the morals that allow them to see “Between the desire and the spasm/ Between the potency and the existence/ Between the essence and the descent” and avoid to create their own destruction. Their own ambitions have blinded them in thinking that they are superior to everything in the world, that they can set their own rule on others to achieve the higher ambition of their own. The dark tone of the poem also represents the corruption of a man’s ambition, not only men’s hollow nature only. The depressing tone in passage three emphasizes the death of a society that is buried under false ambitions of men. The loneliness tone in the line “Is it like this/ In death’s other kingdom/ Walking alone/Form prayers to broken stone.” The tone shows Elliot regret of mankind’s tragic faith. He considers mankind, by choosing its lofty ambitions, is leading to its own