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The Hollow Men : Poem # 10, First Year English

The Hollow Men 


    We are the hollow men
    We are the stuffed men
    Leaning together
    Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
    Our dried voices, when
    We whisper together
    Are quiet and meaningless
    As wind in dry grass
    Or rats' feet over broken glass
    In our dry cellar
   
    Shape without form, shade without colour,
    Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
   
    Those who have crossed
    With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
    Remember us-if at all-not as lost
    Violent souls, but only
    As the hollow men
    The stuffed men.

Summary of The Hollow Men


 The speaker declares that he is part of a group of empty people. These people are stuffed, perhaps like scarecrows, and lean against each other with their heads full of straw. "Oh well," the speaker says. Their voices are so dried-out that they can barely be heard when they whisper to each other, and what they say is as meaningless as the rustling of wind in dead grass, or the skittering of rats over shattered glass in a dry cellar.

 These men are bodies without definition, shadows without color, frozen strength, action without movement.
Those who’ve crossed over to the other kingdom of the dead, looking straight ahead the whole time, don't remember these hollow men as lost, angry spirits (if they remember them at all), but rather as empty people, as people stuffed, metaphorically, with straw.

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