Eliot and Rhys: City Flashcards
T. S Eliot: Detritus
Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.
TS. Eliot: City Directors
And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors;
Departed, have left no addresses.
Rhys: The Carribean
“frangipanni and lime juice and cinnamon and cloves…and incense after funerals or Corpus Christi processions”
“The colours are red, purple, blue, gold, all shades of green.” (54).
Rhys:
London: houses quote
London: houses crit
“the houses on either side of the street were small and dark and then they were big and dark but all exactly alike.”
Allsworth: ‘dark houses’ of Anna’s urban perception become a leitmotif
Eliot: Unlit houses
Bestows one final patronising kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit . . .
Eliot: Flat/ not traditonal domesticity
“lays out food in tins”
“Divan… (at night her bed)”
“out of the window perilously spread
Her drying combinations”
Rhys: Flat (s)
Room,
Walter being more domestic
Anna not having money
“There was a mouldering round the walls of the sitting-room—grapes, pineapples and acanthus leaves, all very dirty”
“high-ceilinged, with four chairs […] a piano, a sofa, one armchair”
Walter brings her “an eiderdown and wine and grapes and essence of beef and a cold chicken”
“Thirty-five bob a week” “Good God[…] surely you can’t manage on that”
Rhys: Flaneuse CRIT (Name?)
no home
Why different from flaneur
Hyungju Park
What makes the heroines drift is mainly the fact that there is no comfortable and solid home for them
an object for males, she is passively treated as a woman of the streets
BENJAMIN RE: FLANEUR
fragmented, fleeting experiences of the modern
what is a flaneur (lit hist)
A literary type in French literature, poetry of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). quintessential figure of modern/ist capitalism. Benjamin theorised.
