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T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” creates a vivid microcosm of the proverbial Hour of Death.
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Cassie Weigel Mr. David Olsen, Instructor ENGA 190-02 8 October, 2004 T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" creates a vivid microcosm of the proverbial Hour of Death. It embodies those who have come to the end of life without achieving divine fulfillment and who understand for the first time that it is too late to change the past. In various forms of consciousness, the men scrutinize their beings as they apprehensively await Death's Judgment in their final moments. Eliot's poem begins with the word "hollow," which suggests the first form of consciousness: The consciousness of self. It reflects the emptiness of a soul without faith and displays the consequences faithlessness can have on a man's physicality - his Head, Voice, Form, and Eyes. The men "leaning together... gathered on this beach of the tumid river" with "Headpiece filled with straw" are distressed by the realization that they were not...
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