Relationship between Heart Of Darkness, The Hollow Men and Apocalypse NowThe Hollow Men is a poem by TS Eliot who won the Nobel Prize in 1948 for all his great achievements. The Hollow Men is about the emptiness that all people have; while Heart of Darkness is a story of the darkness that all people have. The poetry written by Eliot was heavily influenced by Conrad and Dante. Some people might even think that World War I influenced this as well. It was written after the First World War and may describe how people's beliefs have been eroded. I think a lot of the poem is written about Heart of Darkness and Dante's Inferno is used as an image for the poem. In this essay I will show how the poem The Hollow Men is about the same thing as Heart Of Darkness, how the lines of Hollow Men describe scenes from Heart Of Darkness, and why Brando quoted the poem in the film Apocalypse Now. The poem The Hallow Men is obviously about emptiness in men. In the book Heart Of Darkness there are empty men. BC Southam says that: "Conrad's story is full of empty men, empty of faith, of personality, of moral strength, of humanity" (A Student's Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot 151). This is especially observed in Kurtz. It can be described as "empty deep inside" and the entire story revolves around this emptiness. In Eliot's poem, when he talks about the empty men, he talks about... middle of paper... the same feeling as the empty man. They both know that every man has a darkness. Eliot went so far as to use actual scenes from the book and incorporate them into his poetry. The film Apocalypse Now uses poetry to show the darkness that Eliot described so well. The book, the poem, and the movie are all great in their own way. There seems to be something great about the darkness. Works Cited Southam, BC A student's guide to the selected poetry of T. S. Eliot. 1963: Boston, Faber and Faber Limited. 1990Hargrove, Nancy. Landscape as symbol in the poetry of TS Eliot. Mississippi UP, 1978. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. 1899. Norton & Company (1988): New York: Norton, 1988