Why does willard kill kurtz
Last words of kurtz in heart of darkness
Mr kurtz-he dead!
The Hollow Men
Modernist poem by T. S. Eliot
For other uses, see The Hollow Men (disambiguation).
| The Hollow Men | |
|---|---|
Eliot in 1923 | |
| Written | 1925 |
| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Publication date | 1925 |
| Lines | 98 |
| Quote | This is the way the world ends |
"The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T.
S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles, hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot.[2] It was published two years before Eliot converted to Anglicanism.[3]
Divided into five parts, the poem is 98 lines long.
Eliot's New York Times obituary in 1965 identified the final four as "probably t
