Review
A poem associated with the post World War I era, ‘The Hollow Man was published in 1925. Often described as a poem of boundaries, it was heavily woven around the concept of existence and nothingness, the combat between darkness and light, the thin lines between life and death. Divided into five parts consisting of 98 lines, the poem had its last four lines being the most quoted lines recorded in the 20th century of any English poet.
The Hollow Men’ characters seem to be often subjected to either a spiritual or physical journey. With the humility, realisation and affirmation of their culpability, they seem like lost souls with downtrodden prestige. Their failure was certain when they could not convert their needs to fulfillments, ideas to creativity and their motions into actions. The difficulty they encountered in discovering their spiritual stagnancy was as a result of the huge distance between their thoughts and actions and their knowledge of ‘death’s numerous kingdom’ which appeared to be the interpretation to their hollowness. The journey’s end is filled with horror, horror and horror similar to Kurtz horrible experience in ‘Heart of Darkness’. The poem is a combination of prayers, language and spirit.
Poem Analysis
Section One:
This section gives an interlude of an assemblage of Hollow Men who are stuck together like wastrels. Their personalities which include their voice and bodies are being ascribed to the drought of the Sahara desert. Their whole idea and actions seems empty. Even though their cowardice and timidity had restricted them to act brutally in order to gain access to hell, they still lived in hell. The people who made it to the other side of River Styx conclude them as ‘Hollow Men’ because they were unable to attempt a cross.
Section Two:
Describes how one of the hollow men was scared as hell to behold people who accessed ‘Death’s Dream Kingdom’ (Hell or Heaven). The world of the Hollow Men was filled with shattered images and symbols.
Section Three:
This section how the Hollow Men end up saying prayers to shattered stones when they attempt a kiss at someone. The cause was because the place was full of desolate and broken stones
Section Four:
Being afraid to stare at people or to be stared at, the Hollow Man construes his barren, empty environs as one without sight.
Section Five:
The nursery rhyme ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush’ was the welcome line in the fifth and final part. In this scenario, the children are playing round a nettlesome pear cactus. Being a shadow of their own selves according to the speaker, the Hollow Men cannot create, respond, act or are simply non-existent. Phrases like ‘For Thine Is the Kingdom’ and ‘Life Is Very Long’ are being quoted by the speaker but unfortunately, they finally shatter into chunks. The Mulberry bush is finally converted into a song about the end of the world which was expected to end with bliss and lightening but alas! The world comes to an end with a horrible and sad whimper for ‘The Hollow Men’.
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