![]() ![]() It also tends to demonstrate how Eliot portrays his own view on the modern men and the modern life through this poem. The study thus intends to shed light on two main themes including religion, spirituality, meaninglessness and nothingness. The poem has been explored from both approaches in order to know the first impression of the researcher of the poem and backed by critics' notions of the poem. The current paper provides an analytical study of Eliot's poem, "The Hollow Men." The methods that have been employed in this research are textual and reader-response analyses. Eliot, in his quest for finding a satisfying religion, penned “The Hollow Men” as a mirror to the conditions of the society after the World War I which caused suffering from lack of faith, religion and morality. ![]() The paper finally depicts major themes in the poem. ![]() The paper tackles the critics’ views on Eliot, Eliot’s view on modernity, and the role of tradition and intertextuality in Eliot’s poetry. Eliot believes that modern men are hollow from their insides, and they are empty yet filled with straw just like a scarecrow. The poem has been explored from both approaches in order to know the first impression of the researcher of the poem and backed by critics’ notions of the poem. The current paper provides an analytical study of Eliot’s poem, “The Hollow Men.” The methods that have been employed in this research are textual and reader-response analyses. In this regard several studies have been conducted when he was a young poet. This is certainly has been reflected in his plays, poetry and prose writings. Although Eliot has undergone several influences yet he was having his own unique style of writing. This should not be forgotten that Eliot has been influenced by the above mentioned philosophies and his teachers at Harvard. Having lived in a religious family, Eliot’s poems are usually talking about the value of the individual and religious belief. Freud’s idea, Darwin’s idea and Marx’s ideology have actively taken part in making shifts in people’s understanding of life. All the solid and significant things were trivialized. People who lived in the modern age feel alienated and alone in the crowd. Moreover, Eliot’s quest reaches to the point where the poet looks at the modern life as gloomy, nihilistic and meaningless. Eliot has realized that he could convey his thought through his poetry. Eliot’s poetry explains both the modern problems with the modern problems. Also his impersonal poetry though is like a science, quite well deals with the problems of people in the twentieth century. His complicated poems delve deep in the modern issues. His poems are insight to the life of people in the modern age. Eliot and Modernism Preface Eliot is the master of modern poetry. ![]()
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