MODULE B: Key Information Flashcards
What is the context for Preludes?
Bubu de Montparnasse is a novel set in the Paris underworld, about a man who forces his girlfriend into prostitution and lives on her earnings.
The urban landscape: Prufrock.
This poem explores the incapacitating anxiety which plagues society through the depiction of a modern man paralysed in urban social milieu. The persona’s indecisive tone shapes the concern of Eliot.
The urban landscape: Preludes.
‘Preludes’ explores a modern world that has superseded the natural – becoming an environment of decay and squalor wrought by industrialisation.
What is the Journey of the Magi about?
The journey the wise men took when following the star to Bethlehem where the Christ child was born.
What is the significance of Dante’s extract in Prufrock.
The opening of the poem quotes a man cursed to eternal damnation. Through this intertextual reference, Eliot’s viewpoint is reflected through his denotation of modern life and its banality as equivalent to hell.
