Secondary school teachers of English often avoid teaching T.S. Eliot's poetry because they consider his work too difficult for young readers and too full of esoteric allusions. However, at the heart of his work is a variety of rich, concrete images which can be used to reveal his meaning and which can be offered to students in the form of drawings or images on an overhead projector. Teachers can readily adapt Eliot's "The Hollow Men" to this method by drawing "death's dream kingdom," consisting of three scarecrows slumped together, followed by a rat walking over shards of glass, cacti, and a fading star. Teachers, following the poem, can then draw "death's other kingdom," represented by a rose, sunlight on a broken column, a tree, and people singing. Teachers can further distinguish the two halves of the picture by explaining the history of Guy Fawkes, the failed English revolutionary and Joseph Conrad's character Kurtz from "The Heart of Darkness" who together form the keynote of the poem, and placing their names in the appropriate portions of the picture. The vivid images offered in a visual, rather than written, context can help students comprehend Eliot's nightmare vision of the world, and his preference for evil, violent figures who see the world as it is rather than the nondescript, silent majority who populate the twentieth century wasteland. Such a concrete, accessible method also works with Eliot's other poems for example "Prufrock," the "Quartets," and "The Wasteland." (A copy of "The Hollow Men" and sample drawings are included.) (JC)