During the semester, we read many poems by many famous authors. All of these poems were worthy of the literary credit they received, but I would like to write this article about an equally wonderful poem. I will write this article on “The Hollow Men” by TS Eliot. This is an incredibly poetic work that is simply brilliant. I will discuss how Eliot consistently uses images of death and creation to reinforce the theme of the poem. Throughout this poem, there is an ever-present theme of death. There is not a single verse in which there is not something that is "dead". The beauty of his verses makes even darkness and death attractive. “Form without form, shadow without color, paralyzed strength, gesture without movement.” This verse alone provides a wonderfully haunting image of darkness and death. This is a descriptive adjective for the realm of death in which the hollow men reside. “The realm of death,” “the dead earth,” “dying stars,” and “fading stars” are all images of death that Eliot uses to emphasize the ever-present theme of death in this poem. The way he ties everything together almost makes the reader want to become one of the "hollow men". One of the things about this poem that makes it so interesting is the fact that despite the ever-present theme of death, Eliot throws in some imagery of creation to counter it. In the fourth stanza, the lines “Blind, unless the eyes reappear like the perpetual star, the many-leafed rose of death's twilight realm. The hope of only empty men” creates the image of recreation as a possibility for these “empty men.” This is their only hope, and in a way, it is like the creation of the world for them. The reappearing eyes almost serve as their savior. “Between conception and creation, between emotion and response the shadow falls” is also an image of creation. It is a subtle implication of life and death falling into existence after creation. Eliot's poetic style here is simply exceptional. There is also a religious undertone to all of Eliot's images of death and creation. It seems that every mention of death also conveys a religious image. The poem always talks about the “kingdom of death,” and isn't the kingdom of death part of the kingdom of God? I certainly have a religious image in mind, as I suspect most readers do, when I see the phrase "For thine is the Kingdom" repeated on more than one occasion.