Instead of kissing someone, they offer prayers to these statues. The Hollow Men are walking alone, filled with love. Then the speaker asks if it is the same in death’s other kingdoms too (Heaven/Hell). People pray before these stone statues under the light of a dying star. It is a desert filled with cactus and stone statues. The speaker then describes the setting of the poem. Thus, the speaker doesn’t want to face the God in the Judgement Day, to decide his activities of his past life. So they try to hide themselves under disguises : the skin of a rat or crow. The Hollow Men do not want to be near to heaven or anything that will tell them some information about themselves that they do not know. The speaker tells that he doesn’t want to get nearer to Heaven. Here, the poet means that we as people have come too farther from our faith and culture that it now feels as they never existed. Those voices are very far away, even farther than a dying star. There is a tree swinging in the wind, and voices can be heard. But these eyes do not appear in ‘death’s dream kingdom’ i.e. But, the speaker doesn’t look back at them. ![]() These eyes represent the eyes of God’s judgement. Then the speaker sees eyes in his dreams. They are also referred as ‘stuffed men’ as they are stuffed with straw but are hollow from within. If that person remembers about these men, then it would not be as lost angry souls, but as mere empty people. That person walked away straightforward without looking at these hollow men. Then, they talk about someone who has visited the ‘other kingdom of death’. In short, their existence has no meaning. Their bodies have no true forms, no colors, and they make gestures without motions. The speaker goes on to describe their appearances. Everything they speak seem to be meaningless as wind over dead grass, or rats moving over broken glass. Their voices are so dried that it feels if they are whispering. Their bodies are like men, but heads are filled with straw like a scarecrow. The poem begins with a group of men who call themselves ‘The Hollow Men’. We will find certain references to that incident in this poem. every year in England people burn a figure made out of straw that resembles Guy Fawkes. The second epigraph “ A penny for the Old Guy” is a reference to the famous historical figure Guy Fawkes, who conspired to blow up the Parliament Hose of England. He has no moral values that can signify him as a decent human being. This character appears in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. According to the first epigraph, “ Mistah Kurtz-he dead“, a man named Mistah Kurtz is dead. The poem begins with two epigraphs, just like many of T.S.Eliot’s other poems. ![]() In the poem, a group of men are trapped in a barren world waiting for a change to take place.
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