eliot quotes

Question 1

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling along the floor of the silent sea”

Answer 1

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; re-evaluating his choices and using synecdoche to anthropomorphise himself to be an isolated creature, described with visceral imagery.

Question 2

“No I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be”

Answer 2

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; reduces himself to a minor character like Polonius by objectifying and mocking himself with the use of chremamorphism.

Question 3

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think they will sing to me.”

Answer 3

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; believes he is rejected from society in his old age

Question 4

“An alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another Death.”

Answer 4

The journey of the Magi; first-person

Question 5

“The thousand sordid images of which your would was constituted, flickered across the ceiling”

Answer 5

Preludes;

Question 6

“Newspapers in vacant lots […] ancient women gathering fuel in vacant lots”

Answer 6

Preludes; cyclical structure, motif

Question 7

“The notion of some infinitely gentle/ Infinitely suffering thing”

Answer 7

Preludes;

Question 8

“Dissolve the floors of memory and all its clear relations, its divisions and precisions.”

Answer 8

Rhapsody on a Windy night;

Question 9

“A broken spring in a factory yard … hard and curled and ready to snap.”

Answer 9

Rhapsody on a Windy night;

Question 10

“eaten smooth and polished, as if the world ave up the secret of its skeleton”

Answer 10

Rhapsody on a Windy night;