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T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri of New England
descent, on Sept. 26, 1888. He entered Harvard University in 1906, completed
his courses in three years and earned a master's degree the next year. After a
year at the Sorbonne in Paris, he returned to Harvard. Further study le ....
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....is poem "The Hollow Men" with a quote from Joseph Conrad's
novel the Heart of Darkness. The line "Mistah Kurtz-he dead" refers to a Mr.
Kurtz who was a European trader who had gone in the "the heart of darkness" by
traveling into the central African jungle, with European standards of life and
conduct. Because he has no moral or spiritual strength to sustain him, he was
soon turned into a barbarian. He differs, however, from Eliot's "hollow men" as
he is not paralyzed as they are , but on his .... |
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