t.s. eliot Flashcards
Mod B advanced english
Prufrock
Title ‘Love Song’
“Let us go you and I”
“Like a patient etherised upon a table”
The intertextuality of Dante’s Inferno in the epigraph establishes Eliot’s view of the urbanised world as hellish and fractured.
Eliot further rejects Romantic notions through his intentional employment of the paradoxical title “Love Song” and use of romantic imagery in the stanza, “Let us go you and I” which is juxtaposed in the unnerving simile, “like a patient etherized upon a table”. This immediately evokes a sense of discomfort in readers, allowing Eliot to effectively portray Prufrock’s vulnerability and alienation from the modernised world around him.
A sense of confinement is established, as the persona is unable to find a place in this rapidly changing society, reflecting society’s inability to form connections despite the wealth and technological advancements of modern life.
Prufrock
“Yellow fog”
Prufrock
“Rubs it muzzle on window panes”
Prufrock
“Do I dare?”
Preludes
Vignettes
Preludes
“winter evening” that “settles down”
Preludes
“burnt out ends of smoky days”
Preludes
“The morning comes to consciousness/ Of faint stale smells of beer”
“With the other masquerades/ That time resumes”
Rhapsody
“Eyes in the street trying to peer through lighted shutters”
Rhapsody
“Midnight shakes the memory / As a madman shakes the dead geranium”
Rhapsody
“You see the border of her dress / Is torn and stained with sand”
Hollow men
Empty and “filled with straw’
Hollow men
“Tumid river”
Hollow men
“In this valley of dying stars”
Hollow men
“For Thine is the Kingdom / For Thine is / Life is”
