Preludes

Sunlight

________ is personified as a sneaky subject who "creeps "and is blocked by shutters but brings all the world back with it.Symbol.

Christ

________ is imagined in the sky, blocked by the city, and in the street, trod upon by pedestrians.

IV

The "evening newspapers "in prelude ________ are a metonym for the cyclical unchanging wastefulness of urban life, and for its narcotic effect on people, like the tobacco in the pipes.

sensory experience

Time is also marked by the ________ of human behavior.

1650s

It was first used in the purely musical sense in English in the ________.

Preludes

________ can be read as four separate poems and or one poem of 54 lines.

false pretense of reality

Life is described as a "masquerade, "a ________.

classical poetry

In ________, the sound of birds is a symbol of spring.

Repetition

________ is built into the structure of the overall poem.

modern technology

The lighting of the lamps suggests one way that city life goes contrary to nature: its an artificial way to continue daylight beyond its natural course, to supercede a diurnal cycle with ________.

cycles of life

Women "are physical representations of the ________ because they give birth.

Natural

________ and artificial light have a tense relationship in Preludes.

ignoble images

A soul, which should be infinite, is limited to a thousand ________.

prelude

A(n) ________ is something that comes before " (pre) "the main action ("lude, "play or action)

Preludes

________ "contains many images of human life reduced to something partial, sinister, and broken.