6/28/2023 0 Comments The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot![]() ![]() They want to raise a voice, but are timid and cannot even have access to the hell. Their life is projected as absurd and meaningless life. Their voices are dry, bodies are shapeless, and shades are colorless and are as dry as the grass in the wind. Everything about their characteristics is absolutely dry and dull. In the first part of the poem, a group of hollow men are shown leaning on each other like the scarecrows. The five sections of the poem are narrated by a Hollow Man. The Hollow Men poem begins with two epigraphs one is from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, 'Mistah Kurts-he dead' and the other is 'A penny for the old Guy' which is an expression by school children to buy firecrackers to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day. They are not even pure enough to pass those first initiation rites indicated in The Waste Land. The hollow men, like the knights of the Grail legends, quest for salvation, but because they are blind, spiritually and physically, they cannot find what they seek. The eyes and the rose may well be symbols like the Holy Grail a salvation sought but unattainable. The hollow men wait for the final destruction because between now and then there is only an endless series of birth, death, and rebirth which is inescapable and which is, in itself, a waste land not only because it is inevitable, but because it offers no salvation from the wheel on which they turn. ![]()
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