MOD B

Question 1

Urbanisation and societal decay
“ in the…” ( JAP )

Answer 1

“In the room women come and go, talking of Michelangelo”

• fragmentation
• historical allusion

Question 2

Urbanisation and societal decay
“ to prepare…” ( JAP )

Answer 2

“ to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet”
- irony

Question 3

Urbanisation & societal decay
“ the lamp…” ( Rhapsody on a windy night )

Answer 3

“ the lamp hummed: /
Regard the moon” “
- irony

Question 4

Urbanisation & societal decay
“Preparing for…” ( Rhapsody )

Answer 4

“Preparing for life is
The last twist of the knife”
- Enjambment

Question 5

Urbanisation & societal decay
“With all its muddy…”
“ all the hands …” (Preludes)

Answer 5

“With al, it’s muddy feet that press to early coffee - stands … all the hands raising dingy shades in a thousand furnished rooms”
- synecdoche
Societal conformity and worshipping of consumerism which has led to the same mundane repetitions daily = monotony

Question 6

Urbanisation & societal decay
“ the morning …”
“ as the street …” ( Preludes )

Answer 6

“ the morning comes to consciousness”
“ as the street hardly understands”
- personification

Question 7

Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ we are …” ( Hollow men )

Answer 7

“ we are the hollow men /
We are the stuffed men”
- metaphor

Question 8

Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ Paralysed force …” ( Hollow men )

Answer 8

“ paralysed force, gesture without motion”
- antithetical phrase (directly opposed or contrasted)

Question 9

Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ the notion of …” (Preludes)

Answer 9

“ the notion of some Infinitely gentle/
Infinitely suffering thing”
- tone
- Allusion

Question 10

Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ I should be … “

Answer 10

“ I should be glad of another death”
- allusion
- Tonal shift

Question 11

Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ for thine is … “ ( Hollow men )

Answer 11

“ for thine is / life is / for thine is the”
- broken syntax
- fragmentation

Question 12

Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ alien people …” ( Magi)

Answer 12

“ alien people clutching their Gods”
- metaphor

Question 13

Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ Hard and …” ( Magi )

Answer 13

“ Hard and bitter death”
- metaphor

Question 14

Conformity
“ Shall I part …” ( Prufrock)

Answer 14

“ shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach”
- rhetorical question

Question 15

Conformity
“ should I, after tea …” ( Prufrock)

Answer 15

“ should I after tea and cakes and ices/have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
- tricolon ( tea and cakes and ices)

Question 16

Conformity
“ we are the …” ( Hollow men )

Answer 16

“ we are the stuffed men leaning together headpiece filled with straw”
- Metaphor
- Symbolism

Question 17

Conformity
“ With all its … “ ( Preludes )

Answer 17

“ with all its muddy feet that press/ To early coffee stands.”
- Synecdoche

Question 18

Conformity
“ shape without from …” ( Hollow men )

Answer 18

“ shale without form/ shade without colour,/ pa
- oxymoron - illustrates self as a contradiction, missing integral qualities.

Question 19

Time & passing of time
“ six o’clock” or “half past-one” ( preludes and rhapsody)

Answer 19

“ six o’clock” or “half past-one”
- fragmentation - into distinct items highlights how life has been centred around the notion of time and these fragmentation of life

Question 20

Time & passing of time
“Running stream “ (magi)

Answer 20

“Running stream”
- symbolism - timelessness associated with a river as a liminal space reflects the relative interpretation of the.

Question 21

Time & passing of time
“ with other Masquerades…” ( Preludes)

Answer 21

“ with other masquerades/ that time resumes”
- motif
- parallelism - parallels time with a “ masquerades” criticising how humans waste their life around an illusion which is time, reinforced by emphasis in the cyclic nature of day and night.

Question 22

Time & passing of time
“ I grow old old …” ( Prufrock )

Answer 22

“ I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled”
- repetition
- rhyme despite prufrock submitting to the ephemerality(lasting for very short) of time, he is still unable to engage with his external world due to his obsession with time, resulting in his futil struggle of “human voice wak[ing] us, and we drown”

Question 23

Time & passing of time
“ there will be …” ( Prufrock)

Answer 23

“ there will be time, there will be time”
- repeated truncated sentences:
perception of time as never ending, detrimental due to the finite nature of life, contradiction to reality

Question 24

Conformity
“Evening newspapers and …” (Preludes)

Answer 24

“Evening newspapers and eyes assured of certain certainties”
- sibilance
Reiterates conforming nature I’d modern society, in fear of ostracism individual perceivable nay given news as truth lacking capacity to critically think, the amalgamation of society ultimately preventing te diversification of society = monochromatic output.

Question 25

Time and passing of time
“Measured life …” (JAP)

Answer 25

“Measure life in coffee spoons”
- metaphor
Parallels the entity of life to the mundane addiction of individual to coffee. Ultimately reiterating the notion that time has been compartmentalised into malaise increments of life that never cohere, forming the perpetual mundanity of the modern world

Question 26

Futility
“All the hands…” (Preludes)

Answer 26

“All the hands that are raising dingy shad in a thousand furnished rooms”
- synecdoche
Life no longer has meaning due to lack of spirituality and social conformity led to same mundane depictions daily.

Question 27

Futility
“We are the …”
“Shape without form …”

Answer 27

“We are the hollow men/we are the stuffed men”
“Shape without form, shade without colour,/paralysed force gesture without motion”
- paradox / juxtaposition
Hollow to stuffed men captures Elliot’s notion that the modern man is metaphorically disillusioned by their fulfilment of the mundane in wake of the tragic events in WWI

Paradoxical quote illustrated the plight of the hollow men as they lack integral qualities and allow them to fulfil their purpose and holistically function

Question 28

Futility
“Multifoliate rose …” (Hollow men)

Answer 28

“Multifoliate rose … the hope only of empty men “
- biblical allusion
Elliot pays homage to the importance of religion in overcoming feelings of emptiness in his biblical allusion to the virgin Marry, capitalising on the necessity of spirituality in modern society.

Question 29

Futility
“For thine is …” (Hollow men)

Answer 29

“For thine is / life is / for this is the “
- Fragmentation
Fragmented final words of the hollow men emphasis their inability to fosters spiritual connection in their urban environment .

Question 30

Futility
“ this is the …” (Hollow men)

Answer 30

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.”
- metaphor
“Bang” reference to Guy fawkes (gun powder) results In Hollow men live ending I a meaningless and pitiful way due to inability to decide what will flyover meaning to their lives

Question 31

Futility
“Worlds revolve …” (Preludes)

Answer 31

“Worlds revolve like ancient women gathering fuel in vacant lots”
- Simile
Meaningless of modernity, giving net output of the futility and bleakness that a modern society pertains to