T S Eliot- Environment

Question 1

‘Streets that follow like a tedious argument’

Answer 1

The love song of j Alfred prufrock
Similie
Personification
Causes confusion through overwhelming

Question 2

‘The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window panes’

Answer 2

The love song of Alfred j prufrock
Daunting
Extended metaphor of a cat throughout the poem
Lost but affectionate- similar feelings towards England current state.

Question 3

‘Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon you have the scene arrange itself’

Answer 3

Portrait of a lady
Addresses the reader
Pathetic fallacy- shows what the rest of the poem will be like

Question 4

Unreal city under the brown fog of a winter noon

Answer 4

The fire sermon
Always set in the winter- dark and unforgiving
Brown fog- sense of decay and clouding- can’t see what is going on anymore
Complt lay transformed - imaginary or illusory

Question 5

I think we are in rats alley where the dead men lost their bones.

Answer 5

Ww1 reference - matter of fact tome
Destruction and this is all that left
Morbid nickname of the dead 
Their death has merely become part of life 
Collective

Question 6

The rivers tent is broken, the last fingers of leaf clutch and sink into the wet bank

Answer 6

The fire sermon
No leaves left overhead- open to the elements
Empty wind in an empty place- nothing left in modern London
Overwhelmed by wet- cannot be dried out or repaired

Question 7

The nymphs are departed

Answer 7

The fire sermon
Greek mythology
No longer magical
All substance has been ripped from London by revolution and a cold mechanical feeling is spreading
Repetition of departed- sense of loss is overwhelming like the damp

Question 8

And drowned the senses in odours stirred by the air

Answer 8

Metaphor for modern life- modern products are overwhelming everywhere
Completely engulfed all other aspects
Everything sounds fake- comment on superficial nature of society