A startling statistic from an MSNBC online article states that nearly fifty percent of Americans hate their jobs more than at any time in the last twenty years (msnbc.com). This quote refers to the fact that some American workers are no longer living their dreams and have no purpose or meaning in their lives. The poems “The Hollow Men” and “Miniver Cheevy” also have the same theme. The poem "The Hollow Men", by T. S. Eliot, is about the emptiness that determines how people live their lives. Similarly, “Miniver Cheevy,” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, is about a man who constantly dreams of living in the Middle Ages as he struggles to find meaning in his life. Although different types of imagery are used, both poems use imagery to create a similar message: a life of pursuing useless things is futile and unsatisfying. Many people in the world who are dissatisfied with their lives can connect with the emptiness of empty men. feel in Eliot's poetry. “We are the little embalmed men leaning together on the hat full of straw” indicates a non-original quality that all men have in common. Their goals in life are similar because they are not fulfilling. In “The Hollow Men,” the image of scarecrows represents the empty lives of people and their vacant activities. The lives of empty men have no purpose or meaning. “This is the dead land, this is the land of cacti” describes an empty and dead environment. Eliot uses the barren desert to show the lifelessness of the empty men, even though they are alive. The lack of life in that environment perfectly describes the life of the dreamless people Eliot is trying to describe. In truth, men lack spirit and life, which Eliot showed through the images and characters... in the center of the card... problems affect every part of his life. Even after "Miniver thought and thought", he gave up and continued drinking. His impossible dreams always lead him back to alcohol and self-pity, which get him nowhere. Furthermore, the poem's final line, "Miniver coughed, called it fate, and drank on," confirms that Miniver Cheevy has given up, along with the hollow men, and his purpose in life has diminished. each poem is distinct and the similarity of the message in both poems is evident. The poems are similar in that the narrator's lives are empty and contain no passion to pursue anything. The ideas reflected in these poems are visible even today, in things like listless living and work-related apathy. Both poems suggest that a life in which dreams of meaningless things are pursued will end without purpose or meaning.