Hollow Men/Heart of Darkness

The second part of the poem has changed two a first person speaker, describing his incounters with his experiences to get him to where he is now. The speakers observations have made him a hollow, unemtional man. "There the eyes are/ Sunlight ona broken column"(23-24). In heart of darkness Kurtz has somewhat of this same thing in front of his hut he has" the heads of rebels" on stakes(222). Both the speaker and Kurtz …

…is can be detected in the couples of lines. One of the differences is "Between the idea/ And the reality" (72-73). On Kurtz's death bed this is appearant," The light was within a foot of his eyes"(239). The reality would be being able to actually see the light but instead he has to die base on the idea that their is light. "The shade of the original Kurtz frequented the bedside of the hollow sham..."(237).