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Poetry Analysis of T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men

I picked this poem by Eliot for two primary reasons, one of them being that Eliot is
one of my favorite modern poets, and the other being the view presented in it. That view
is one of a barren and dead world, with humans as meandering and meaningless objects
with no true value, and religion (primarily Christianity) as a futile hope for a salvation that
will never be granted. Most of that can be observed in section I, but particularly in lines
5-7, where it is said that "our dried voices... are quiet and meaningless." Within that
section, Eliot states repeatedly that we humans are objects without worth, and that our
actions and voices mean nothing after we have passed. The statement "Headpiece filled
with straw" in line 4 has a double meaning, representing the straw hat worn by simple
country people, and also showing a lack of meaningful thought within the human mind. In
the last part of this section, there is......

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