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The Hollowmen. The Hollowmen is an Australian television comedy series set in the offices of the Central Policy Unit, a fictional political advisory unit personally set up by the Prime Minister to help him get re-elected. Their brief is long-term vision; to stop worrying about tomorrow's headlines, and focus on next week's.
Analysis (ai): "The Hollow Men" reflects the despair, apathy, and spiritual emptiness of a post-World War I society. Eliot uses imagery of decay and lifelessness to portray the hollow existence of these individuals, who lack purpose, emotion, and connection. Compared to Eliot's earlier work, such as "The Waste Land," the poem is more fragmented ...
The Hollow Men. " 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 ...
- T. S. Eliot
- 1925
The Hollow Men Summary & Analysis. “The Hollow Men” is a poem by the American modernist poet T.S. Eliot, first published in 1925. Uncanny and dream-like, “The Hollow Men” describes a desolate world, populated by empty, defeated people. Though the speaker describes these people as “dead” and the world they inhabit as the underworld ...
T.S. Eliot. 96. 'The Hollow Men' depicts men in a desolate world, symbolizing their barren existence through imagery of broken columns, glass, and stones. The poem, evoking images of heaven and a shadowy presence, is narrated by a collective speaker. These men, likened to scarecrows, are trapped between life and death in a world where they lack ...
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- October 9, 1995
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The Hollowmen: Created by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Rob Sitch. With Lachy Hulme, David James, Neil Melville, Rob Sitch. Mockumentary that follows the daily situations in which the staff from the Australian Prime Minister find themselves.
The first section of the poem describes the “hollow men” referenced in the poem’s title and introduces a contrast between the past, established in the epigraph, and the present. Modernist poets focused on life in the post-World War I world and the effects of mass industrialization on society and the individual.
