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Though The Hollow Men is more stark and elegant than Eliot's complex poem, The Wasteland, one could still end up spending hours if you were to dissect this poem line by line.
Whether one agrees with Eliot's sentiments and his personal philosophy or not, his imagery is simply superb.
Bleak bleak bleak outlook. One has to applaud the sheer force of the imagery. What could be more disturbing than a procession of brainless, shuffling zombies? Possibly a horde of sightless, shuffling strawmen, hollow ...more
Whether one agrees with Eliot's sentiments and his personal philosophy or not, his imagery is simply superb.
Bleak bleak bleak outlook. One has to applaud the sheer force of the imagery. What could be more disturbing than a procession of brainless, shuffling zombies? Possibly a horde of sightless, shuffling strawmen, hollow ...more
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Certain phrases are always echoing in my mind, and this is one of them. Whatever else may be said of my useless high school years, they got the meditations of one T.S. Eliot into my head. In high school, I loved to pick Eliot's poems apart, running every allusion back down to unlock the 'true' meaning. Rereading this for a group read, I am gratified to find that the imagery its ...more
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Certain phrases are always echoing in my mind, and this is one of them. Whatever else may be said of my useless high school years, they got the meditations of one T.S. Eliot into my head. In high school, I loved to pick Eliot's poems apart, running every allusion back down to unlock the 'true' meaning. Rereading this for a group read, I am gratified to find that the imagery its ...more
A haunting poem, with facets of meaning that have struck me differently each of the times I have read it. Although Eliot was famous for including allusions of all kinds in his poems, he was opposed to the annotation or adaptation of his works. He wrote in a letter in 1962, "I will not allow any academic critic and there are plenty of these in America only too willing) to provide notes of explanation to be published with my poems... I should be allowing interpretation of the poem to be interposed
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