The Hollow Men

The poem The Hollow Men was written by T. S. Eliot a modernist author. Its fragmentary and overlapping themes which are related to post-World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles are characteristic of most of his work. The battle to keep hope is one of the central themes of The Hollow Men. Even though they are dead the Hollow Men are unable to enter the hereafter because they are imprisoned on the banks of the River Acheron. Certain souls cannot be allowed into either Hell or Heaven according to Dante's Inferno.