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“The Hollow Men” at 100
“The Hollow Men,” as we have it now, was first published in T.S.
Way back in 1958 in the PMLA, Friedrich W. Strothmann and Lawrence V. Ryan, drawing on the meaning of the word “empty” in St John of the Cross’s Dark Night of the Soul(which Eliot knew), argued that the poem ends positively—which is to say, with a religious conversion: What was originally grasped by the “hollow men” as vague hope of finding the multifoliate rose changes for them into a way of realization: they are to achieve salvation by emptying themselves of all that is not God and journeying through the delectable desert of purgation. Giulia Cenci’s series of skeletal structures of doglike humanoids starring at their hands as if they held phones— called “The Hollow Men” —is currently on view at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.
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