eng ts eliot q1

Question 1

“And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? …” - Urban Imagery

Answer 1

Prufrock 1

Question 2

“That is not what I meant, that is not it at all” - High modality (fear of being misunderstood)

Answer 2

Prufrock 2

Question 3

“I do not think that they will sing to me” Mythological allusion (fear of rejection)

Answer 3

Prufrock 3

Question 4

“Withered leaves about your feet, And newspapers from vacant lots” - Synecdoche

Answer 4

Preludes 1

Question 5

“And you heard the sparrows in the gutters.” -Subversion of romantic

Answer 5

Preludes 2

Question 6

“As the street hardly understands” Personification of street

Answer 6

Preludes 3

Question 7

“When we whisper together are quiet and meaningless” - Metaphor

Answer 7

Hollow men 1

Question 8

“More distant and more solemn” - Biblical allusion to Bethlehem

Answer 8

Hollow men 2

Question 9

“Gathered on the beach of this tumid river” Swollen river - the border of Hell in Dante’s Inferno, the entry to hell in Greek myth, even the Congo River. In HoD, Marlow steps into the river, an Inferno.

Answer 9

Hollow men 3