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| Question | Answer |
| Preludes: Exhaustion | "Burnt out ends of smoky days" - “smoky” – gloom, pollution, industrialization – Free association = linking the image to the burning out of a cigarette |
| Preludes: Grime | "Gusty shower", "grimy scraps" "smells of steaks in passageways" - alliteration of S sound - sensory descriptions of surroundings creates the feeling of dirtiness and litter |
| Preludes: Poverty | "Showers beat on broken blinds and chimney pots"- alliteration of B = destruction and dishevelment "Like ancient women/ gathering fuel in vacant lots" - scavenging, desperation and loss of dignity |
| Preludes: Alienation | "On the corner of the streets/ a lonely cab horse stamps" - abandonment "You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands" - emotional isolation from the busy crowds ("with all the muddy feet that press") |
| Preludes: Perpetuity | "Six O'clock", "Four, five and six o'clock" - the repetition of mundane lives, which are ruled by routine "wipe your hand across your mouth and laugh/ the world revolves like ancient women/ gathering fuel in vacant lots" |
| Preludes: Destruction of the world | "His soul stretched across the sky" - personification of the city "Or trampled by insistent feet" |
| Magi: Suffering | “And the night fires going out, and the lack of shelters/ and the cities hostile the towns unfriendly/ and the villages dirty” – accumulation of struggle –enjambment suggests the never-ending length of the journey – sense of overall struggle |
| Magi: Setting/ World | "And the camels" - allows for free association of the location (camels = desert/ middle east) "And the silken girls bringing sherbet" - silk= middle eastern resource, sherbet = exotic treats |
| Magi: Changing world | "We returned to our places, these Kingdoms/ But no longer at ease here.../ With an alien people clutching their gods" |
| Magi: Disappointment | "Finding the place; it was (you might say) satisfactory" - anticlimactic discovery |
| Magi: Fear/ doubt | "With the voices in our ears saying/ that this was all folly" "the birth was/hard and bitter for us, like death, our death" |
| Magi: Religion | - "And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow" - majesty, images of god Revelations 6:2 - "Three trees on a low sky" - Luke 23:32 "Alien people clutching to their gods" |
| Magi: Death | " this Birth was/ Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death" - Birth of Christ suspends the possibility of pagan beliefs, which "kills" this culture and way of life "I should wish for another death" - the impact of this birth on non-Christian believers |
| Rhapsody: Hours of the night | "12 O'clock", "Half past one", "Half past 2", "half past four", "Four o'clock" |
| Rhapsody: Madness/ hypnosis | "Held a lunar synthesis/ whispering lunar incantations" - alliteration of S sound = whispering "As a madman shakes a dead geranium" - pointless efforts/ the character = mad |
| Rhapsody: The city | "reaches of the street" - distorted, endless streets "all its devisions and precisions” – relating to the current state of the world- thrives off industrialization, war and capitalism – alliteration of S sound |
| Rhapsody: woman | “The street lamp said ‘regard that woman/ .../ you see the border of her dress/ is torn and stained with sand/ you see the corner of her eye/ twists like a crooked pin" - enjambment = sense of shock or horror – gruesome imagery “torn”, “crooked” = disheveled and scary – These are the kinds of people who wander the streets at night |
| Hollow men: | Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion |
| Prufrock: awkward/ anxiety | “To lead you to an overwhelming question…” Ellipses = hesitation, nervousness – ambiguity as to what the question is |
| Prufrock: facades | - “To prepare a face to meet the faces you meet” |
| Prufrock: time | “And time yet for a hundred indecisions/ and for a hundred visions and revisions” – stagnant, changing his mind – he is so insecure that he cannot move |
| Prufrock: insecurity | “(they will say ‘how is hair is growing thin!’)” |
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