T.S. Elliot's Hollow Men p1599

Hollow Men seems like a death statement. It is so repetative in saying, "under the twinkling fading star," "Falls the shadow" at the end of most versus. The references to the "twinkling fading star" are related to death of the hollow men who don't want to be known as "lost, violent souls," but as again, the "Hollow Men" and also the "stuffed men."

"IN death's dream kingdom," says he is somewhere near that. What is "death's dream kingdom?" It is the place after a life the men want to describe in their own way how they lived that is waiting for them in the end. The "twinkling fading star" hints that wishes are gone and can't be obtained anymore. The "Sunlight on a broken column" meaning there is no more sunlight, "the voices are In the wind's singing," meaning voices of that were once alive are lost and disapearing; not living, "More distant more solemn Than a fading star," meaning onto the place where life was there to live, but the men can't live anymore. They are "distant," going into a world that is "solemn."

Elliot writes of kingdoms. He relates this dreary-like life and connection with an after-life with kingdoms. He is describing an imaginative world that is existing for dead men. When the narrarator describes not wanting to known as "violent" but hollow gives us the feeling he has done things in life that could be misenterpreted. It is like a solemn confession the dead men are making as they enter the kingdoms.

Descriptions like "This is a cactus land," "stone images,"There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars," tell this the men aren't in a good place. The verse, "Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;" are describing opposities. It is the opposite of the hollow men's desire of the world they want to be in.