The Hollow Men : poem by American-English poet Thomas Steams Eliot.
... 88, 140-4, 147-8, 196, 205 -"Burnt Norton", 142n., 144n., 146-7n -"East Coker", 14On., 145n -"Little Gidding", 141n., 145-6n -."The Dry Salvages", 145-6n., 148n -"The Hollow Men", 140, 149n -The Waste Land, 140 Elsinore, 185 Encyclopaedists, the, 286 England, 205, 253, 284 Epicurus, 108, 1O9n Euclid, 107 Euripides, 73, 86 Europe, 58 ...
... in passages of The Waste Land and The Hollow Men , e.g., Page 350 Or let us take a passage from Stephen Spender,— There is a rhythm there, but it is not sufficiently gathered up or vivid and it is much more subdued than Eliot's towards the atony and flatness of ordinary prose rhythm. The last lines of the quotation from The Hollow Men could be used to describe with a painful ...
... is a good preparation and passage into the Night. Only, the negative element in it was stronger – the cynicism, the bleakness, the sereness of it all was almost overwhelming. The next stage was "The Hollow Men": it took us right up to the threshold, into the very entrance. It was gloomy and fore-boding enough, grim and serious – no glint or hint of the silver lining yet within reach. Now as we find ourselves... poetic ring of the Inferno is difficult to maintain in the Paradiso, unless and until the poet transforms himself wholly into the Rishi, like the poet of the Gita or the Upanishads. ¹“The Hollow Men” Page 149 ...
... extent of the influence might not have been very appreciable, there can be no question about the reality of Sri Aurobindo's intelligent interest in contemporary English poetry. Passages from The Hollow Men are scanned in Sri Aurobindo's essay on quantitative metre as examples of the new 'ametric poetry', and once, in 1946, in defence of his use of the French word 'flasque' in Savitri, he said ...
... when we hear the words – The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms... (The Hollow Men, IV) It has to be admitted that Eliot by his own method has achieved considerable success in such instances. A little before I have referred to Good Night. Various poets have variously ...
... 22. Ibid., pp. 60-61 23. Sunday Times, 6 May 1951 24. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series, pp. 64-65 25. Ibid., pp. 63-4 26. T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men 11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 68 28. The extracts are from Purani's own account given in his Life, p. 292 29. Ibid., p. 300 30. Ibid., pp. 301-02 ...
... to those few who were afflicted with a quick sensibility and a wide-awake conscience. For the intellectuals, for the sophisticated, for the bright young things and the grey elderly wrecks, for the hollow men and the stuffed men and the electronic men, the world had the look of a rat's alley, a waste patch or a giant capsule, and in their struggle for existence men encountered only prickly pear, rattling ...
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