This paper discusses the poem by T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" that contemplates the idea of how life would end and what
the fate of man is when he dies. The author believes that, all throughout the poem, Eliot uses lines that depict
hopelessness and
emptiness in one's life. The paper concludes by comparing the theme of life and death in T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" with "Faust" by Goethe, the legend of "Beowulf" and "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.