TS Eliot mood and theme
WITH REFERENCE TO THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK AND PREDULES. DISCUSS HOW T.S. ELIOT CONVEYS MOOD AND THEMES. Both Prufrock and Preludes are based in the same rootless world of sordid tedium. In Prufrock Eliot is conveying a theme a strong theme and is based heavily in the Persona of Prufrock himself. Preludes is a poem of changing moods, some subtle, some profound but this time conveyed primarily through diction and repetition. One theme of Eliot's, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, is the exposure of the modern individual's inability and refusal to address inadequacies that he sees in both him and his society. Two ways Eliot conveys his theme is through the persona of Prufrock and repetition . One method used by Eliot to expose this theme is his use of the persona of J Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock is in part a shallow conformist, 41 ....My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,42 My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin-43 (They will say: 'But how his arms and legs are thin!')......However, almost tragically, Eliot has Prufrock aware of the shallowness of the society to which he conforms.26 There will be time, there will be time
Words such as, "burnt out", "gusty", "grimy", "vacant", "broken", and "lonely", help set the mood for the remainder of the poem. The observer notices something, "infinitely gentle", kind and sad about the suffering beings. 91-93)1 2 3 0 WdsBibliography see body. 53 The worlds revolve like ancient women54 Gathering fuel in vacant lots. Preludes is a series of four lyrics describing a modern city. Eliot achieves a mood of struggle through surrealist imagery depicting the individual's agony as his morals and values are, ". Prelude I begins with an attractive, familiar setting, a winter evening. "Do I dare/ Disturb the universe?" Despite the superficial judgments his society passes on him, Prufrock is still hesitant in speaking out against their empty lives. The humane quality of the phrases, "I am moved.
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