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The theme of the poem is that human beings have become soulless. They are just stuffed with greediness and selfishness. Although they have to depend upon each other, they cannot make a society. All their efforts are as useless and insignificant as the running of rats or the rusting of grass. They do have shapes but inside there is nothing except shallowness and meanness. So, they are just walking bodies without souls.
THE HOLLOW MEN
The Theme / The Central Idea ( The Hollow Men)
The theme of the poem is that human beings have become soulless. They are just stuffed with greediness and selfishness. Although they have to depend upon each other, they cannot make a society. All their efforts are as useless and insignificant as the running of rats or the rusting of grass. They do have shapes but inside there is nothing except shallowness and meanness. So, they are just walking bodies without souls.
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