The Hollow Men Flames and Dangling WireThe Valley of the Ashes Extract from Gatsby How does the form of these texts affect the way that humans are depicted in the particular environments presented in the texts?

The Hollow Men
Flames and Dangling Wire
The Valley of the Ashes Extract from Gatsby

How does the form of these texts affect the way that humans are depicted in the particular environments presented in the texts?

All three of these texts depict a very bleak,desolate, and bland human environment. They describe a boring dumpyard in flames and dangling wire, a grey polluted city in the valley of the ashes extract, and from my impression in hollow men, a wide open abondoned space that once was thriving but now has crashed to nothingness,.

In the Hollow Men, I get the impression of a very meaningless environment. The scarecrows are ‘hollow’ which says there is no meaning in their life, they just stand together for an eternity serving no purpose on an abandoned farm. The scarecrows are also ‘stuffed’ which says to me that they have no hope of any sort of revival back to their old times, but are stuck the way they are for the rest of time. This poem depicts the abandoned fie...