Eliot Ao5

Eliot fuses “the m_-of-f_ and the f_”

Eliot fuses “the matter-of-fact and the fantastic” - Cleanth Brooks

“Nearly every l_ of it was written while l_ into the e_ of a d_”

“Nearly every line of it was written while looking into the eyes of a demon” - Rajan

“Each m_ is an i_, f_ image, producing its own a_”

“Each moment is an isolated, fragmentary image, producing its own affect”

“Eliots i_ of the p_ a_ is s_ rather than s_”

“Eliots indictment of the present age is spiritual rather than sociological”

“There is no j_, no e_, not even p_”

“There is no joy, no exultation, not even pleasure”

“s_, i_, d_ and d_ dominate Eliots poetry”

“sterility, inaction, detachment and despair dominate Eliots poetry”

“Prufrock is an i_, s_ p_ narrator”

“Prufrock is an insecure, socially paralysed narrator”

Prufrock is said to “epitomise f_ and i_ of the m_ i_”

Prufrock is said to “epitomise frustration and impotence of the modern individual”

Eliot - “g_ poetry can c_ before it is u_”

Eliot - “genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood”

“a poet must take his m_ his own l_ as it is a_ s_ around him”

Eliot - “a poet must take his material his own language as it is actually spoken around him”

Eliot - “his d_ d_ is to the l_”

Eliot - “his direct duty is to the language”

“[Prufrock] is a man so p_ by an o_ a_ about the p_ of getting things w_ that he never a_ at d_”

“[Prufrock] is a man so paralysed by an overwhelming anxiety about the possibility of getting things wrong that he never arrives at decision” - Perry

Portrait of a Lady: “the e_ and s_ of the life of a c_ w_”

Portrait of a Lady: “the emptiness and sterility of the life of a cultured woman”

Journey of the Magi: “out of m_ m_ into a c_ m_ of writing”

Journey of the Magi: “out of modernist mode into a christian mode of writing” - Perry

“portraits of w_ o_ r_ more about the a_”

“portraits of women often reveal more about the artist”