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Where did Eliot grow up; where did he settle

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St. Louis, Missouri; England

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What is Eliot’s full name

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Thomas Stearns Eliot

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What type of character is Eliot

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Quiet, cultured man

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What years did Eliot live

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1888-1965

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How did Eliot feel about the industrial model

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He used it as an opportunity to abandon 19th century ideas and form new ideas to express realities of modern life

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WW1 seemed to Eliot the breakdown of…

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2,000 years of England civilization

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Eliot felt that modern life was a “shattered confusion” with no

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Center

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When was Eliot first published

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1917

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How was everyday life transformed

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Electric power and automobiles

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What years were emerging Modernism

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1901-1950

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British workers were obtaining

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Economic and political power

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What were women more demanding of

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The right to vote

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What movements were gaining momentum in British colonies

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Nationalist

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What was language reflected on

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Fads and fancies of popular culture

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The attitude of “anything goes” promoted what type of language

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Slang and colloquial

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What also made slang acceptable

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The horrors of WW1

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The spirit of Modernism stressed

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Innovations

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Free verse

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Natural flow-abandoning traditional patterns of stanza and meter

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What were some innovations

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Free verse, strong images, usual symbols,

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Stream of consciousness

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A narrative technique that attempts to depict the leaps and associations of the human mind

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After WW1, disillusionment in writers were

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Seeing the world as bleak and fragmentary, they were bitter or turned from society to personal concerns

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1930-1940 the focus was

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Social

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What was Eliot’s day job

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Bank clerk

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Eventually Eliot turned to

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Religious comfort

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After WW1, Eliot was awarded

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Noble Prize

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What musical is based on Eliot’s works

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Cats

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Who were the three most influential 20th century poets

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Yeats, Eliot, and Erza Pound

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Eliot wrote in…and people had difficulty

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Free verse; understanding them

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Eliot’s poetry contain images from

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Gritty urban streets

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Eliot’s poetry was

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Open to Everyday language, ordinary experiences, free verse, and had complex images, symbols, and allusions

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Yeats was

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Irish, a poet, play write, critic, and interested in the supernatural. He, also, made up his own belief in times of confusion

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“The Second Coming” presents what kind of world

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A chaotic world, everyone is hurt, disconnected “anarchy,” “the center can’t hold” and blood in the water

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What kind of future does Yeats see

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A bleak coming as a beast is slouching toward Bethlehem

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What is a symbol used in “The Second Coming”

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Sphinx-the devil is going to Bethlehem instead of Jesus

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What is a prelude

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Introduction, short musical piece based on recurrent themes

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What is Eliot’s “prelude”

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Snap-shots of life

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In Eliot’s “prelude” why does he switch points of view

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It’s shows the different feelings toward the city and him talking to a specific person while showing there are still individuals

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What is the setting of Eliot’s “Prelude”

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It’s in 20th century dirty, run down, vacant city at winter

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What are the people like in “Prelude”

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They are poor and dirty, but they continue on with their day (not giving up)

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What is the mood in Eliot’s “Prelude”

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Dismal because everything is broken and dirty

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Does he write “Prelude” before or after religious revival

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Before because he is dwelling in the past and giving no religious observations

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Allusion; what does the “Hollow Men” allude to

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Reference to something the author expects the reader to know; the Lord’s Prayer

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Paradox

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A statement that seems untrue but there is some truth behind it

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What is meant by “stuffed men”

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Don’t think, follow everyone else, and can just fall apart

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What is meant by people kissing broken stones

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People are praying to idols, but there is really no faith

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Why does the world end in a whimper

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Because it is weak, has sorrow and hurt

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What is the Shadow

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The in between places, laziness

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What does it mean that there are many eyes but they don’t see

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There is no hope

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Parallelism

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The use of similar grammatical structures to express related or equally important ideas

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How was Auden eccentric

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He lived in filthy apartments and gave speeches in jeans and slippera

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Where did Auden spend his final years

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In Oxford

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What was Auden interested in

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Modern society and psychological aspects of human life

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How did Auden write

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Simple so the common man could read it

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“Musee des Beaux Arts” what is the theme

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If something miraculous or horrible is happening then the people will not
turn their heads if it doesn’t concern them

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What is the situational irony

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We’d expect people to help but they don’t

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“The Unknown Citizen” what does Auden suggest about independent thinking

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There is no time so go with the flow

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“Do Not Go Gentle Into The Night” stanzas

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1 intro- feel anger toward death, don’t give in
2 wise men-there is still knowledge we need
3 good men-could do more
4 wild men-wasted to much time
5 grave men- need to loosen up
6- father- I want guidance, he cares

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How does Dylan Thomas relate to his poem

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He doesn’t want his dad to die

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Personal essay

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A writer gives an opinion and uses his own experience to support it

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George Orwell

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British officer

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Why did the men laugh after hanging the prisoner

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They were uncomfortable and tried to get it off their minds

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What is the point of the dog

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Comic relief, and to show how horrifying this activity really was

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Why doesn’t Orwell tell the prisoners crime

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He doesn’t want to distract us from the theme of the essay

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What is the theme in “A Hanging”

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It’s weird and wrong to kill a human

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