ts eliot quotes trial Flashcards
Prufrock 1 (1/15)
And you watched the smoke rise from the pipes of lonely men in shirtsleeves, leaning out of windows - Urban Imagery
Prufrock 2 (2/15)
That is not what i meant, that is not it at all - high modal repition
Prufrock 3 (3/15)
I do not think that they will sing to me - Mythological allusion
Preludes 1 (4/15)
Of faint stale smells of beer from the sawdust trampled street with all its muddy feet that press - Synecdoche
Preludes 2 (5/15)
And you heard the sparrows in the gutters - subversion of romantic imagery
Preludes 3 (6/15)
And you had visions of the street, as the street hardly understands - Personification of the street
Rhapsody 1 (7/15)
Held in a lunar synthesis. whispering lunar incantations - metaphor
Rhapsody 2 (8/15)
Midnight stretches the memory as a madman shakes a dead geranium - Simile
Rhapsody 3 (9/15)
Rust that clings to the form that the strength had left hard and curled and ready to snap - polysyndeton
Hollow men 1 (10/15)
When we whisper together are dried and meaningless - Symbolising lack of vitality, emotion or significance
Hollow men 2 (11/15)
More distant and more solemn than a fading star - biblical allusion to bethlehem
Hollow men 3 (12/15)
This is the dead land this is the cactus land Imagery of desolution
Journey of the Magi 1 (13/15)
The ways deep and the weather sharp, the very dead of winter - weather imagery time of decay & death
Journey of the Magi 2 (14/15)
The camel men cursing and grumbling and running away, wanting their liquor and women - polysyndeton hardships and hired helpers as sinful
Journey of the Magi 3 (15/15)
I had seen birth and death, but thought they were different - juxtaposition
