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Peter Egri, 1974

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“Eliot’s world concept, both experienced and formed, is the reflection of unresolved contradictions”

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PRUFROCK

simile

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“Streets that follow like a tedious argument/ Of insidious intent”

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“Gathering fuel in vacant lots”

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PRELUDES

Paradox

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RHAPSODY

motif of time

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“Every street lamp that I pass/ Beats like a fatalistic drum”

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“Let me be no nearer/ In death’s dream kingdom”

“No nearer-/ Not that final meeting/ In the twilight kingdom”

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HOLLOW MEN

religious allusion

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Cornelia Cook, 1996

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“The way Eliot uses language… to convey both a godless world and a world where awareness of God is the gift of epiphanies is to engage with an intense and meaningful use of paratactic language”

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“There will be time/ To wonder”

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PRUFROCK

Motif of time

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PRELUDES

hyperbole

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“In a thousand furnished rooms”

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“Do I dare/ disturb the universe?”

“Do I dare to eat a peach?”

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PRUFROCK

disjointed image

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“Dissolve the floors of memory/ And it’s clear relations/ It divisions and precisions”

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RHAPSODY

enjambment

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“Between the motion/ And the act”

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HOLLOW MEN

enjambment

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“With an alien people clutching their gods”

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JOURNEY

disconnected connotations

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JOURNEY

Certain tone

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“Set down/ This set down/ This: were we led all that way for/ Birth or Death?”

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Vincent Leitch, 1979

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“As Eliot’s consciousness of the nature of existence changes around the time of his conversion, so his poetic expressions of experience alter”

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Numbered structure

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PRELUDES

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“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be”

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PRUFROCK

intertextuality/literary allusion

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“With the other masquerades/ That time resumes”

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PRELUDES

motif of facades and time

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JOURNEY

high modality

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“I should be glad of another death”

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PRELUDES

personification

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“The conscience of a blackened street/ Impatient to assume the world”

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“Streets that follow like a tedious argument/ Of insidious intent”

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PRUFROCK

Simile

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HOLLOW MEN

enjambment

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“Between the motion/ And the act”

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“In a thousand furnished rooms”

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PRELUDES

hyperbole

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PRUFROCK

repetition

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“In a minute there is time/ For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse”

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“With the voices singing in our ears, saying/ That this was all folly”

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JOURNEY

pathos

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JOURNEY pensive tone
"We returned to our places, these kingdoms/ But no longer at ease here"
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RHAPSODY personification
"As if the world gave up" "The moon has lost her memory"
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"As if the world gave up"
RHAPSODY Personification
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"The notion of some infinitely gentle/ Infinitely suffering thing"
PRELUDES motif of time
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"No generalisation about modernism can afford to make an exception of Eliot"
Louis Menand, 1996
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"To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"
PRUFROCK motif of facades
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"We returned to our places, these kingdoms/ But no longer at ease here"
JOURNEY pensive tone
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"The conscience of a blackened street/ Impatient to assume the world"
PRELUDES personification
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PRELUDES motif of facades and time
"With the other masquerades/ That time resumes"
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HOLLOW MEN Juxtaposition
"Paralysed force"
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"In a minute there is time/ For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse"
PRUFROCK repetition
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"Every street lamp I pass/ Beats like a fatalistic drum"
RHAPSODY motif of time/ simile
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"As Eliot's consciousness of the nature of existence changes around the time of his conversion, so his poetic expressions of experience alter"
Vincent Leitch, 1979
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HOLLOW MEN religious allusion
"Let me be no nearer/ In death's dream kingdom" | "No nearer-/ Not that final meeting/ In the twilight kingdom"
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Louis Menand, 1996
"Modernism is a reaction against the modern" | "No generalisation about modernism can afford to make an exception of Eliot"
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RHAPSODY enjambment
"Dissolve the floors of memory/ And all it's clear relations/ It's divisions and precisions"
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"Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life/ The last twist of the knife"
RHAPSODY end rhyme
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"Paralysed force"
HOLLOW MEN paradox
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PRELUDES | I,II,III,IV
Numbered structure
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PRUFROCK Motif of facades
"To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"
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"Falls the shadow"
HOLLOW MEN repetition
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"The moon lost her memory"
RHAPSODY personification
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"Set down/ This set down/ This: were we led all that way for/ Birth or Death?"
JOURNEY certain tone/ enjambment
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"Sightless, unless/ The eyes reappear/ As the perpetual star/... The hope only/ Of empty men"
HOLLOW MEN religious allusion
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"This Birth was/ Hard and bitter agony for us, like death, our death"
JOURNEY enjambment
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JOURNEY enjambment
"This Birth was/ Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death"
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HOLLOW MEN Repetition
"Falls the shadow"
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"Modernism is a reaction against the modern"
Louis Menand, 1996
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"I should be glad of another death"
JOURNEY high modality
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"Eliot's world concept, both experienced and formed, is the reflection of unresolved contradictions"
Peter Egri, 1974
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PRELUDES Motif of time
"The notion of some infinitely gentle/ Infinitely suffering thing"
63
"The way Eliot uses language... to convey both a godless world and a world where awareness of God is the gift of epiphanies is to engage with an intense and meaningful use of paratactic language"
Cornelia Cook, 1996
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PRUFROCK motif of time
"There will be time/ To wonder"
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JOURNEY disconnected connotations
"With an alien people clutching their gods"
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PRUFROCK intertextuality
"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be"
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JOURNEY pathos
"With the voices singing in our ears, saying/ That this was all folly"
69
HOLLOW MEN religious allusion
"Sightless, unless/ The eyes reappear/ as the perpetual star/... the hope only/ of empty men"
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RHAPSODY end rhyme
"Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life/ The last twist of the knife"
73
PRELUDES paradox
"Gathering fuel in vacant lots"
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PRUFROCK Disjointed image
"Do I dare/ Disturb the universe?" | "Do I dare to eat a peach?"

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