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Hollow Men

THE HOLLOW MEN
my interpretation:

a) T.S Eliot’s view of civilisation and Man is actually very positive. Hollow men seem to give the image of a hollow wooden doll, which is lightweight and delights many little kids. Stuffed men reminds us of the scarecrow in The Wizard of the Oz. The scarecrow sets out to find a heart, which shows how humans seek to be better people with ‘heart’.

T.S Eliot also depicts humans as respectful as they do not dare meet the eyes in death’s dream kingdom. They have a respect for those of highter authority. His talk of death’s dream kingdom shows that he thinks Man have a capability of ruling both life and death, which goes to show how highly he thinks of creatures like Man.

He also brings the poem randomly to a scene of a desert. This brings confusion to many people, but only smarter ones are able to understand that desert represents a vast emptiness. This stands for Man’s vast and clear knowledge, with no obstacles except an occasional cactus, and this helps man just as cactus fights the dryness of the deserts with its juice.

T.S Eliot thinks that Man is knowledgable. They do not need speech, do not need sight, to gather on the beach of the tumid river. Ironically, the broken jaw of our lost kingdoms meant that Man’s kingdom is regained. The lostness of the kingdom is now ‘broken’, so the kingdom’s found again. Here, he also mentioned that hope lies in empty men. It means that he thinks that knowledgable men suck, and that the less knowledge, the better. Here, the mention of twilight kingdom, hollow valley etc refers to Batman. Yes, I have to agree with the annonnymus genius. Batman is a hero, and that’s what T.S Eliot’s trying to say; men are heroes. Only they can save themselves from the ‘eyes’ that are not here.

Finally, in V, prickly pear represents a sweet fruit that pricks the tongue. This means that although men are awesome, they have to be careful of several bad sheep that would hurt them. These threats would most likely attack at five o’ clock in the morning. The Shadow, the bad guy, would fall between the idea and reality, between the motion and the act, which means they would fall at the most subtle place, like a toilet. This is because, when people shit, they have the idea that it would come out but in reality it doesn’t. This is simlar with conception and creation, emotion and response, desire and spasm, potency and existence, essence and descent.

T.S Eliot also thinks that men are children at heart. This is because he uses the nursery rhyme twice.

When he said the world would end in a whimper, it means peacefully, thanks to Man.

b) The mood of this poem is happy. For example, he said that life is very long, which is nice because that means global warming isn't about to kill us anytime soon.

c) T.S Eliot clearly wanted to steer those unfortunate students who were made to interpret his work away from the correct path. He thinks we’re dumb enough to think the poem is about the hollowness of men, about war and all the terrible things, when actually, it’s a happy poem. In a personal level, I want to praise T.S Eliot for putting in such a tremendous effort to make me see that life rocks :D

HAHAHAHA, I should submit this to Mr Latiff and watch his face.
“Michelle… come and see me later.”

Okay, I actually typed out that crap in a few minutes only. Haha. The real answer... kinda takes hours to put together.
And it's still not done.
*wails*

I have a new watch! It's lime green and yellow-green (like dry grass) 8D Did I mention I love lime green? Plus it's only 10 bucks. HA.

I am dead tomorrow. Thousands of homework incomplete.

posted by Michelle @ 7:38 PM