FEATURES OF MODERN POETRY “THE HOLLOW MEN”
T.S. Eliot “God’s in his heaven” types of optimism is a thing of the past. T.S. Eliot did not confess atheism, but his attitude towards life as we find it in such poem as ‘The waste Land’ and ‘The Hollow Men’ is far from optimistic to quote a few lines from the latter.
We are the Hollow men.
We are the stuffed men
Learning together. Load piece filled with straw, Alas!
Our dried voices when
We whisper together
Are quite and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
The pessimism of 20th century poets is not of the some what stylized melancholy of shelly or the Tennysonian elegance mode with its lingering enjoyment of self pity. It is more intellectual and more impersonal.
This poem has the astounding variety of them. As its title suggests, it is written on
“The Hollow Men”
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
In ‘The Hollow Men” all the richness and complexity of culture which gives. Such thickness of texture disappears. The poem takes place in a twilight realm of disembodied men and forces. The complexity of relations making up the subjective realm in Eliot’s ideal descriptions of it is replaced by the vagueness and impalpability of
“Shape without form
shade without colour
paralysed force
gesture without motor
longingness is root of modern poetry also. In this poem.
We also find longingness as
The below lines suggest
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of deaths facilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
The final stanza may be the most quoted of all of Eliot’s poetry.
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
The poem reflects upon Eliot’s skepticism about the men of his time, the posterity, and society as a whole.
He quotes the Bible, but cannot finish the quoted. He can only get “for thine is the ….” Out…. This shows his anger at god and the religious.
T.S. Eliot wrote this poem during a period of absence from the bank, having just suffered a nervous breakdown. The them of ‘hollowness’ presented in the poem directly relates to his own psychological condition at the time a condition known at the time as ‘aboulie’ epigraph to section.
The ‘hollow men’, and ‘stuffed men’, ‘filled with straw’ are a combination of the effigies.
T.S. Eliot “God’s in his heaven” types of optimism is a thing of the past. T.S. Eliot did not confess atheism, but his attitude towards life as we find it in such poem as ‘The waste Land’ and ‘The Hollow Men’ is far from optimistic to quote a few lines from the latter.
We are the Hollow men.
We are the stuffed men
Learning together. Load piece filled with straw, Alas!
Our dried voices when
We whisper together
Are quite and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
The pessimism of 20th century poets is not of the some what stylized melancholy of shelly or the Tennysonian elegance mode with its lingering enjoyment of self pity. It is more intellectual and more impersonal.
This poem has the astounding variety of them. As its title suggests, it is written on
“The Hollow Men”
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
In ‘The Hollow Men” all the richness and complexity of culture which gives. Such thickness of texture disappears. The poem takes place in a twilight realm of disembodied men and forces. The complexity of relations making up the subjective realm in Eliot’s ideal descriptions of it is replaced by the vagueness and impalpability of
“Shape without form
shade without colour
paralysed force
gesture without motor
longingness is root of modern poetry also. In this poem.
We also find longingness as
The below lines suggest
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of deaths facilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
The final stanza may be the most quoted of all of Eliot’s poetry.
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
The poem reflects upon Eliot’s skepticism about the men of his time, the posterity, and society as a whole.
He quotes the Bible, but cannot finish the quoted. He can only get “for thine is the ….” Out…. This shows his anger at god and the religious.
T.S. Eliot wrote this poem during a period of absence from the bank, having just suffered a nervous breakdown. The them of ‘hollowness’ presented in the poem directly relates to his own psychological condition at the time a condition known at the time as ‘aboulie’ epigraph to section.
The ‘hollow men’, and ‘stuffed men’, ‘filled with straw’ are a combination of the effigies.
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