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Hollow Men - Coggle Diagram
Hollow Men
stasis
"Shape without form, shade without colour, paralysed force"
emptiness of modern man
series of paradoxes
modern life is contradictory, hopeless and aggravating
concept of stasis and paralysis: everything is hollow and the situation won't change
mundanity + futility
motif of scarecrow imagery
"We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men"
heartless, brainless, empty, stuffed with rubbish
modern man is empty but full of irrelevant info
paradox between hollow and stuffed
use of collective pronoun "we" suggests that everyone is going through the same experience
critiques modernity
metaphorically represents the hollow men as scarecrows
the life of the people is meaningless - they are uselessly stuffed
"crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves"
solitude of an open field
the hollow men are easily swayed by the wind
they are like puppets that are easily controlled and manipulated