Module B, Year 12 English Quotes!
Poem | Quote | Technique | Adaptable for |
|---|---|---|---|
Prufrock | "Let us go then, you and I / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table" | Simile | Paralysis, subverted romance, modernist disillusionment |
Prufrock | "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" | Metonym | Wasted life, triviality, fear of insignificance |
Prufrock | "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" | Hyperbole | Indecision, inflated anxiety over trivial choices |
Hollow Men | "We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men" | Anaphora, effigy imagery | Spiritual emptiness, loss of identity |
Hollow Men | "Between the idea / And the reality... / Falls the Shadow" | Repeated antithesis, symbolism | Failure of intention → action, paralysis |
Hollow Men | "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" | Anticlimax | Futility, civilizational collapse, inertia |