TS ELLIOT

Body paragrpah 1 - physical - quote

“a gusty shower wraps the grimy scraps of witherd leaves about your feet”

“and now a gusty shower wraps the grimy scraps of witherd leaves about your feet” Analysis

Elliot employs distinctly anti-romantic imagery in order to showcase how urbanisation and modernity is based upon false promises and that there is nothing enirching about the modern world.

Body paragraph 1 - capitalism quote

”one thinks of all the hands that are raising dingy shades in a thousand furnished rooms”

”one thinks of all the hands that are raising dingy shades in a thousand furnished rooms” Analysis

capitalism alienates people from one another and themselves by reducing them to servants in the capitalist machine and therefore affirms marx’s assesment of capitalism as reducing man to an ‘appendage of the machine’

body paragraph 1 - criss of language quote

“Then how should i begin to spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways”

“Then how should i begin to spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways” analysis

elliot uses a reflexitive rhetorical question to showcase Prufrock’s desire to express his ideaas but no words would be adequate to describe it, and instead of being an authentic expression of emotions, social engagement becomes performative and reheased.

Body paragraph 2 - JOTM quote 1

“more distant and more solemn than a fading star”

“more distant and more solemn than a fading star” Analysis

allusion to the star over bethlehem and is used as a symbol of salvation and rejection in the modern world, whilist reflecting the poem’s broader motifs of distance and seperaton in the spirtiually devoid world of the Jazz age

Journey of the Magi quote 2

”the eyes are not here, there are no eyes here”

”the eyes are not here, there are no eyes here” Analysis

evasion of the judgement that comes at the gates of heavan, a paradoxically reassuring and despairing statement, while also redacting god’s name to represent the evasion of meaningful spiritual connection.

Journey of the Magi form

At the poem ends, it dissolves into a representation of an avant-garde fragmented form, with a repetition of the lines “For thine is the kingdom” and “life is very long” - showing a desire to talk and showcase spiritual conviction but the speaker is unable to

The hollow men difference to JOTM

Contrasts JOTM by showcasing the relief and salvtation that comes with religious conversion.

The hollow men quote one

”ways deep and the weather sharp”

”ways deep and the weather sharp” Analysis

The use of winter imagery portrays the metaphorical death associated with spirtiual conversion as in the modern world, spiritual conversion is hostile and difficult

THM title analysis

allusion to the three men who follow the star to honour Jesus’s birth

THM quote 2

”birth or death? There was a birth, certainly”

”birth or death? There was a birth, certainly”

Elliot uses the antithetical concepts of birth and death paired with Hypophoria in order to parallel the birth of jesus to the figurative death and rebirth of the person’s persona, arguijng that spirtiual conversion necesitates a spirtual death of one’s old self and former ways

THM form

The hollow men is an anomaly in the fragmented avant-garde suite, as it is the most linear, therefore representing the salvation and relief that comes with spiritual conversion.