ARTHIST 2DF3 : Hollowmen_Overview.docx
10 Dec 2014
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Background and context: eliot wrote the poem in 1924 and 1925, after the failure of his first marriage and a nervous breakdown, eliot converted to catholicism in 1926. He visited churches regularly as early as 1921, which suggests that he had been dealing with his own inner conflict about spirituality and salvation: note also that world war 1 had only recently ended. Speaker and point of view: note that the speaker (eliot himself?) speaks in first person he says, we are the. Hollow men , thus the reader is included as one of the hollow men. (and perhaps all mankind)
