12/4/2023 0 Comments The hollow mina![]() Their voice scare them that no one should hear them- it occurs not to them, whether reverberations of sound waves they give birth convey anything if at all they do, they doubt their existence- as if their being not shone from the darkness of nothingness blood doesn't flow in their veins or they don't have veins underneath sheath covering the structure stuffed with skeleton and bones. You are about to embark upon journey of life life as it is contradictory like our hollow men who lack something essential to life- probably have brain only but no heart, or perhaps stuffed like an effigy. "In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry." Louis (MO, USA), he is considered one of the 20th century's major poets, and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. Elliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor. ![]() They did not put any good or evil into the world, so they cannot move on into the afterlife. They fail to transform their motions into actions, conception to creation, desire to fulfillment. These "hollow men" are broken, lost souls. The poem follows the otherworldly journey of the spiritually dead. Eliot's New York Times obituary in 1965 identified the final four as "probably the most quoted lines of any 20th-century poet writing in English". ![]() Eliot written in 1925, divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines. ![]()
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