Eliot Critics Flashcards
Roma Shrestha - preludes
Preludes is just a small window view of the characteristics of the empty society we are shown
Lyndall Gordon - silence
Silence is central to this poem, a momentous silence between the multitudinous, clamouring voices of the Wasteland
Barbara Morden - memory
Memory has been stirred but only to highlight present dissatisfaction and indolence
Roma Shrestha - preludes setting
(aspects of setting) are imbued with the emotions of the observer
Barbara Morden - spirituality
spiritual desert of the post-war generation
Barbara Morden - water
promise absolution and cleansing of the spirit through immersion in water
Hanna Sullivan - past
The past in the Wasteland “is just as unhappy as the present”
Barbara Morden - relationships
Relationships are “illicit, betrayed or barren”
Green - war
perhaps in the war-torn world he inhabited, Eliot sought his location and wisdom in earlier ages
Fabio Tardin - emotion
the overall sense is one of coldness and lack of emotion; the emptiness of sterile lust
Fabio Tardin - relationships
relations are automatic and almost mechanic, resonating the industrialisation of society and urban space
Seymour Gross - prufrock
Prufrock has “dissipated his essential dignity and meaning as a human being
Riquelme - rhapsody
a thoroughly dissonant text whose language creates simultaneously images of the grotesque and something laughable
Fabio Tardin - nightingale
the nightingale is still crying for help and no one listens to it
