The Hollow Men Analysis

Therefore, the poem has a thematic resemblance to that of the wasteland theme. This poem of ‘the hollow men’ seems to be a meditation of subject of human nature of the world as well as the relation of the world to another one, and also the world of either death or the eternity, (Lakoff, p. The poem embodies the post of First World War of which the society had become hopeless and isolated. The music that appears in ‘The Hollow Men’ makes the poem remarkable. There are short lines, rhythms that are faltering as well as the irregular rhymes that make the poem to have a lamenting music that is related to condition of ‘the Hollow Men’. The second stanza has got imagery that emphasizes the meaningless of the existence of humanity.

Eliot starts by saying hollow men can see ‘with the eyes that they dare not meet’ in their dead dream and this happens because they are just shameful of their existence, (Morgenstern, p. Some hope of the redemption in ‘the Hollow Men’ appears towards the end of the poem as it is ending with ‘whimper’. ‘Whimper’ illustrates theme of the rebirth. The hollow men have got the faint sound which is querulous and expressions the child to have been born and is still alive. There is a metaphor of ‘the damaged jaw of their lost kingdom’ that recalls ‘mouth that is dead of the mountain of the carious teeth that are not able to spit’. This is just poetic images that are traditional of the stars-fading star’ as well as ‘perpetual star’.