TS Eliot always incorporated or reflected the idea of ​​disillusionment in a younger generation after the First World War. This means that they no longer believed in the same ideals as before. Right after his college years, he saw everyone broken and hopeless after the war (Shmoop "TS Eliot"). His first work broadly conveying this idea is The Wasteland, which contains a lot of despair and depression (Shmoop “TS Eliot”). Eliot saw that life is brutal and difficult and thought that this should also be conveyed in poetry (Shmoop “TS Eliot”). After studying at Harvard, Eliot moved to England to earn his doctorate at Oxford. However, he loved the country and married a woman with the ill intention of staying there. Unfortunately, he didn't like the woman and felt as broken as The Wasteland (Shmoop "TS Eliot"). In “The Hollow Men,” Eliot uses his idea of ​​post-war disillusionment and despair by incorporating images of emptiness, emptiness, dryness, silence, and death. In “The Hollow Men,” Eliot begins with a proclamation from an unknown party. calling themselves the hollow and stuffed men. Eliot gives a recurring theme throughout this poem of hollowness and dryness. He uses a group without a specified number to tell the poem. When he states that they are hollow or stuffed, it shows that they are devoid of human qualities and basically empty (Gopang, Sangi and Soomro 473). Eliot specifically uses the pronoun “we,” leaving the reader wondering who exactly this is. They represent the people who felt empty after World War I, which had just ended at the time (Gopang, Sangi and Soomro 473). This immediately brings back the idea of ​​Eliot's despair. He goes on to describe them “l...... middle of paper ......ed. However, war always brings suffering and despair. You have to see the good side of war. Many people enjoyed freedom from Austrian and German oppression. Not all the results of the war were hopeless, but promising for the future. Works cited by Gopang, Abdul Sattar, Muhammad Khan Sangi and Abdul Fattah Soomro. "The Indigenous Critical Concepts of TS Eliot and 'The Hollow Men'." Language in India April 2012: 473+. Literary Resource Center. Internet. January 20, 2014.Jeon, Joseph Jonghyun. “Eliot Shadows: Autography and style among the Hollow Men.” Yeats Eliot Review 24.4 (2007): 12+. Literary Resource Center. Internet. January 20, 2014. Shmoop editorial team. “The analysis of hollow men”. Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., November 11, 2008. Web. January 19, 2014. Shmoop editorial team. “TS Eliot.” Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., November 11, 2008. Web. February 5. 2014.