Which famous poet wrote the line 'we are the hollow men'?
The Hollow Men the last four lines of the poem are "probably the most quoted lines of any 20th-century poet writing in English." The sheer variety of references moves some of the questions concerning the poem's significance outside the traditional domain of literary criticism and into the much broader category of cultural studies. Examples of such influences include: The Hollow Men "The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by T. S. Eliot. Its themes are, like many of Eliot's poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognized to be concerned most with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which Eliot
The Hollow Men any 20th-century poet writing in English". Eliot’s characters often undergo a journey - either physical or spiritual or both. "The Hollow Men" seems to follow the otherworldly journey of the spiritually dead. These “hollow men” have the realization, humility and acknowledgement of their guilt and their status as broken, lost souls. The “hollow men” fail to transform their motions into actions, conception to creation, desire to fulfillment. This awareness of the split between thought and action coupled with their awareness of “death’s various kingdoms” and acute diagnosis of their hollowness, makes it hard for them to go forward and break