Title: Eliot claimed to have made up the title‚ "The Hollow Men" from combining "The Hollow Land"‚ the title of a romance by William Morris with Kipling’s title‚ "The Broken Men". Many scholars believe this to be one of Ol’ Possum’s many false trails‚ instead believing it comes from a mention of ’hollow men’ in Julius Caesar or any of several references to Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz as hollow in some way (a ’hollow sham’‚ ’hollow at the core’). The title immediately presents us with the first of many
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institutions (government‚ religion)‚ and the disbelief of any absolute truths. Things which were considered traditional were now viewed as outdated. By some‚ T.S. Eliot’s poem is considered the first of the modernist literary movement; it... ...explore[s] the peculiarly Modernist alienation of the individual in society to a point where internal emotional alienation occurs... Georg Simmel‚ a sociologist‚ summarizes societal concerns during this time: The deepest problems of modern life derive from the
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The Hollow Men "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot is a poem of struggle for meaning amongst the meaningless. T.S. Eliot shows the reader how in this day and age society is becoming less and less active and beginning to become more careless in the way in which we live and behave‚ as represented throughout the poem. It brings out all of our worlds weaknesses and flaws. Eliot brings out the fact that the human race is disintegrating. We are compared to as hollow men with no emotions‚ cares‚ and
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Hindu Upanishad in the poem.Of course‚the waste land is not quite the poem Eliot originally drafted.His close friend and colleague‚Ezra Pound‚significantly revirsed the poem‚suggesting major cuts and compressing.The main features of the book are given below- Summary of the poem- The poem’s structure is divided in to five sections.In the first section‚ “The Burial of Death”‚the narrator-perhaps the representation of Eliot himself describes the seasons.spring brings memory and desire and the narrator’s
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In this poem‚ T.S. Eliot shows the character‚ J. Alfred Prufrock‚ as someone who second guesses all of his decisions and is afraid to change because of his fear of being judged by other people. And indeed there will be time To wonder‚ “Do I dare?” and‚ “Do I dare?” Time to turn back and descend the stair‚ With a bald spot in the middle of my hair— (They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”) My morning coat‚ my collar mounting firmly to the chin‚ My necktie rich and modest‚ but
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Bibliography: MARTIN ’S‚ 2001 - Penguin Books‚ 1990 _ Grieson‚ H.G.C: Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the 17th . Oxford University Press‚ 1969. Vaughan‚ Rama Brothers‚ 2010 _ Lawrence‚ Karen et al: The McGraw Hill Guide To English Literature‚ USA‚ MCGraw Hill Publishing company
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Tracing ‘The Uncanny in Eliot’s ‘The Love Song Of J.Alfred Prufrock’ Freud’s theory of ‘The Uncanny’ reveals much about his understanding of human beings who take form of either repressed beliefs or desires brought up from the unconscious into the conscious mind. Thus is very much related to the poem written by T.S.Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock’‚ which highlights a vision on society that represents the familiar and the unfamiliar. Freud defines the uncanny as‚ “that species of the
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Allen Tate‚ Donald Davidson‚ Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks. There was an inherent hostility to the industrialism and materialism of a United States dominated by the ‘North’. This Southern-oriented movement thus has consanguinity with Arnold‚ Eliot and Leavis‚ in opposing the modern ‘inorganic’ civilization. Second‚ the high point of influence for the movement was during the Second World War and the Cold War. There were whole hosts of alienated intellectuals and quietist students for whom the
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Hamlet decides that the fake madness will work. This plan‚ this fake madness‚ does not make Hamlet an actor‚ but rather an artist‚ according to T.S. Eliot. Eliot writes in 20th Century Interpretations of Hamlet‚ “The ordinary person puts these feelings to sleep; the artist keeps them alive by his ability to intensify the world of his emotions” (Eliot 26). This is the exact thing Hamlet does‚ and with a plan to act emotionally unbalanced set up‚ Hamlet begins to appear and act unhinged around people
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Mary Hyland 11/18/14 P.3 Poem Reaction Paragraphs Emily Dickinson: “Success Is Counted Sweetest” This poem brought about a reaction in me of true success. The message is those who succeed‚ never truly appreciate success: only those who fail‚ or who lack something‚ can truly appreciate the joy if they had succeeded. The poet says “those who ne’er succeed” genuinely value success‚ or as she says‚ “They “count” it “sweetest”. Dickinson also states the members of the victorious army
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