THE HOLLOW MEN
REFERENCE:
These lines have taken from “THE HOLLOW MEN” written by T.S.Eliot”
CONTEXT:
The poet says that human beings have become soulless. They are just stuffed with greediness and selfishness. Although they have to depend upon insignificant as the running of rats or the rustling of grass. They do have shapes but inside there is nothing except shallowness and meanness.
EXPLANATION:
t.s Eliot laments the vanishing past glory of man and his hollowness and soullessness in the modern time. He says that we, the people of this modern, mechanical age are inwardly hollow. But at the same time he calls us stuffed men. Hollow and stuffed are two opposite rather contradictory words. One shows emptiness while the other lays emphasis on the fullness. What the poet wants to convey to us through these two contradictory words is that matter or materialism has stuffed our souls with greediness and selfishness.
These lines have taken from “THE HOLLOW MEN” written by T.S.Eliot”
CONTEXT:
The poet says that human beings have become soulless. They are just stuffed with greediness and selfishness. Although they have to depend upon insignificant as the running of rats or the rustling of grass. They do have shapes but inside there is nothing except shallowness and meanness.
EXPLANATION:
t.s Eliot laments the vanishing past glory of man and his hollowness and soullessness in the modern time. He says that we, the people of this modern, mechanical age are inwardly hollow. But at the same time he calls us stuffed men. Hollow and stuffed are two opposite rather contradictory words. One shows emptiness while the other lays emphasis on the fullness. What the poet wants to convey to us through these two contradictory words is that matter or materialism has stuffed our souls with greediness and selfishness.
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