The Hollow Men - T.S. Eliot

[matharoofmaths]

I found this very hard to understand at first. But now with this video I have has much deeper insights into this poem.

[freebound01]

Very well done.

[idmaster2000]

This is chilling; you capture the spirit of the poem very well.

[philosophy9949]

The world was shattered after WW I. Like Ellie Wisel in Night, there was a voice asking, "Where is God?" The world ended not in a bang, but a whimper.

The eyes we dare not meet in dreams are our own eyes, and shodows and rocks our mortality.

[omega14j1]

This is so horrifying and saddening to me. I have always been very sketchy about the interpretation of this piece, but I always felt it went along the lines of failure in some facet of God's work and descriptions and pleas in hell. With these wonderful images I feel as if I was correct. This is beautifully tragic, thanks to who it is that put this together. Simply wonderful.

[dashunderscoredash]

Not with a full stop, but a colon.

[MultiWinterFall]

Not with a bang but with a whimper

[geramartynmgfs]

The one who disliked this video was quite hollow indeed.

[geramartynmgfs]

WOW.



[JadeRockettNovado]

I would really like to use this link for my "The Hollow Men" presentation in my AP English class just to show the class, but the school has blocked youtube. Is there any way I could possibly show the class this video?

[OxYcOd0n3]

@JadeRockettNovado PM the uploader...

[sexlover144]

you caught this famous poem by t.s. eliot right on the head. I love how you portrayed it.

[darthvari]

@gasdfw5 yes

[pwang000]

wats the name of that picture at the "eye i dare not meet in dreams" part?

[Beckylapo]

@gasdfw5 Yep!

[kerndaddy187]

man thay was pretty cool.

[trafficguy101]

what piece is that? that's some awesome composition!

[GiuseppeCasey]

Nice! Gave me shivers. Apt music choice too, as many read into the poem as having allusions to the gunpowder plot - on which V for Vendetta is based.

Of course it has more relation to Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'. A top notch story if ever there was one.

[thistlewood]

very well done. I am now extremely depressed.

:)

[ReservedRealist]

soundtrack from "V for Vendetta"

[melc1949]

Excellent presentation of this poem! Extremely well done. My hat's off to you.

[EbonysBlaze]

The music ruins the meaning behind the poem.

It provides comfort, but this poem was not made to provide comfort.

It isn't meant to be scary either, just uncomfortable.

Too bad I didn't realize this before I had rated.

[Beckylapo]

The music is not meant to make it "scary," but it is meant to give it an uneasy, "uncomfortable" feeling. Funny you interpreted it as the complete opposite. Not quite sure what happened there.

[EbonysBlaze]

Well, this poem is about unrealized potential, and how uncomfortable it is to acknowledge that we all have unrealized potential.

Music adds a feel that makes it more comfortable to read. It provides a distraction, so we won't have to focus entirely on the poem.

Making The Hollow Men without music would drastically change this feeling by providing us with more unrealized potential that we must acknowledge simply by reading the poem.

At least, that's how I interpreted the music in this video.

[Beckylapo]

Actually, that's not what this poem is about.

[EbonysBlaze]

If that isn't what this poem is about, then what is?

[Beckylapo]

If you really want to know, you can send a message to my inbox. It's kind of hard to explain in this small space.

[chpfrmhell]

@Beckylapo pleas do tell the meaning to this poem as you believe it.

Thanks,

Tom

[Qdammit]

I am forced to disagree that this poem is not scary. It is to me both terrifying and terrified. Full of an uncertanty that could drive a man mad. The music brought out that dark, driving fear that I have always felt behind the poem. Of course, it is a poem, and therefore different to each who reads it...

[EbonysBlaze]

Yeah, this poem doesn't bring me fear, so it doesn't make me afrad or in other words scared. That's all I meant. It does make me very, very uncomfortable, like the sound of somemone scratching a piece of paper.

[LedZeppelin6012]

well done

[nurullah213]

STOP IT STOP SOUNDING LIKE A MONK! JEEZ! mennea and the other guy STOP BEIN MONKS!

[stathisss21]

So as it is the last code of mancind will be manufactured by i half-man half-machine and the code will be the secret to eternal life and neather machine can live without the living flesh so do man cant leave without machine(it means that the world will be fucked up so hard that no living thing can be suported without mechanical help) so the eternal life will be eternal death.... for you are alive caus you are dead... and what is energy ? even the machines know that... im the 1666'th viewer btw

[nurullah213]

Stop trying to sonud like a monk stathisss21. Its not working out for u.

[bloodswan]

Well put together

[mixon1207]

this is awesome!!!! what music is this?

[Flexy1701]

I'd really love to know too.