The relationship between language and emotions can be viewed from two angles. First, language, in a broad sense, can be viewed as being done [performed] "emotive". Taking this angle, it is commonly assumed that people, at least on occasions, "have<span>" emotions, and that "being emotional" gains its own agency, impacting in a variety of ways on the communicative situation</span>
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"Obviously, when Eliot uses words such as hollow, dried, and broken to describe the hollow men, he doesn't mean it literally - it is always a metaphor when poets use words in order to convey a message. So here, when he uses those words, he means that <span>the lives of hollow men are empty - void of spirituality or meaning.
</span>He doesn't refer to them gathering supplies, being damaged by the wind, or not having money - he is referring to their empty lives in general."
