ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’The Hollow Men’ is a poem by T. S. Eliot written in 1925, divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines. Eliot’s New York Times obituary in 1965 identified the final four as “probably the most quoted lines of any 20th-century poet writing in English".

Detailed explanation-2: -"The Hollow Men” (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The Hollow Men” is a poem written in 1925 by T.S. Eliot. The first section of the poem opens to a group of Hollow Men. Everything about them is dry, from their bodies to their voices.

Detailed explanation-4: -Eliot was preoccupied with the idea of a European literary and ethical tradition, and he saw this tradition fragmenting everywhere around him. He turned, as he often did, to his favorite Italian poet Dante Alighieri, whose Inferno was inspiration for this poem.

Detailed explanation-5: -Alfred Prufrock, ” published in Poetry magazine, and other poems that are landmarks in the history of modern literature. Eliot’s most notable works include The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and the play Murder in the Cathedral (1935).