T.S. Eliot and his Views on Life

Poets with much intelligence like T.S. Eliot of his day are known to have many messages within their poetry. Sometimes these messages are those that critic something or that are enjoying something within life. Most poems are seen to be written as for example like riddles they aren’t always the easiest to pick out important messages from the poem. Rather it is much more difficult to pick these out because as the reader there might be first of all not much knowledge about the poet and his or her writing style. Or what was going on in that time era and the lifestyle and struggles back then. However, most poets always have something within simple words that become much more complex in the end when the real meaning of the poem is found by the reader. Although as mentioned sometimes these messages are more difficult to depict sometimes they are not. The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot is a poem of which is more or less a short version of one of his most famous works known as Wasteland in both these poems Eliot has a dark approach to society of his day. Although T.S. Eliot conveys many messages about life in The Hollow Men there are three very important messages he portrays which are; a people are all the same, humans living meaningless lives and our lives are full of despair.

To begin, T.S. Eliot shows how people living are basically all the same. T.S. Eliot does not let go of even his readers in this poem. Instead Eliot includes each and every single reader with the lines that he uses over and over again in his poem saying that. On page 1163 lines 1-5, “We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw, Alas! Our dried voices, when”. Here the poet really includes every single reader of this poem not by ...

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...thing instilled in us and just conform to the world the way it is. Later in the poem T.S. Eliot goes on to try and say the Lord’s prayers but seems to forget it which means that we have forgotten completely about spirituality. Right after this on page 1166 lines 96-98, “The is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but with a whimper.” The world is to end with a whimper because all hope in the world is lost.

In conclusion, Eliot does show many very important messages in The Hollow Men. The three most important and maybe even easier to pick out is that we are all the same, we are empty yet full and life now is different and full of despair. Eliot’s Wasteland is of course much more complex than this and has many more meaning within. In the end The Hollow Men shows just how dark Eliot can be.

Works Cited

The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot