Eliot Flashcards
Societal Fragmentation Prufrock
“To have squeezed the universe into a ball” - Imagery
“Have known the evenings, mornings and afternoons” - Time Motif
Societal Fragmentation Preludes
“The conscious of a blackened street impatient to assume the world” - Personification
“At four and five and six o’clock” “worlds revolve” - Time motif
Societal Fragmentation Hollow men
“In this valley of dying stars in this hollow valley this broken jaw of our lost kingdom” - metaphor
“Here we go around the prickly pear” - Nursery Rhyme
Societal Fragmentation Magi
“And” - Polysyndeton
“With an alien people clutching their god” - Metaphor
Modernism Bleak outlook prufrock
“The yellow fog that rubs its back on windowpanes” - Personification
“Streets that follow like a tedious argument” - Simile
Modernism Bleak outlook Preludes
“His soul stretched tight across the skies That faded behind a city block” - Imagery
“The burn out ends of smoky days” - Metaphor
Modernism Bleak outlook Hollow Men
“Rats feet over broken glass In our dry cellar” - Metaphor
“This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper” - Juxtaposition
Modernism Bleak Environmental outlook
Magi
“A cold coming, we had of it” - Pathetic fallacy
“Camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, lying down in the melting snow” - Imagery
Individualism and Paralysis Prufrock x3
“Spread out across the sky like a patient etherized on a table” - Simile
“To prepare a face to meet the faces you meet” - Repetition
“When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall” - Metaphor
Individualism and Paralysis Preludes
“With the other masquerades” - metaphor
“The thousand sordid images of which your soul was constituted” - paradox
Individualism and Paralysis Hollow men
“We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men” - Collective pronoun
“Such deliberate disguises Rats coat, crowskin, crossed staves” - Imagery
Individualism and Paralysis Magi
“finding a place; it was (you might say) satisfactory” - Parenthetical qualification
“Birth + death” - Repetition
Futility of life prufrock
“In the room where women come and go Talking of Michelangelo” - Rhyme
“I have measured out my life in coffee spoons” - metaphor
Futility of life preludes
“In the palms of both soiled hands” - Synecdoche
“The worlds revolve like ancient women gathering fuel in vacant lots” - simile
Futility of life hollow men
“Eyes I dare not meet in dreams in deaths dream kingdom” Repetition
“In this valley of dying stars” - personification
