English Eliot Quotes

Question 1

In the room the women come and go talking of Michael Angelo

Answer 1

MA
Isolation + alienation
Romanticism of romantic period
Anti modernist ideas

Question 2

MA

Answer 2

Allusion
Rhyming couplet
Refrain

Question 3

The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase and when I am formulated sprawling on a pin when I am pinned and wriggling to the wall

Answer 3

P
Isolation and alienation
Anti modernist
Worlds materialism shift to scientific rationalism - entomology

Question 4

P

Answer 4

Metaphor
Synechdoche
Consonance w
Personification

Question 5

I grow old I grow old I wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled

Answer 5

T
Passing nature of time mortality
Nihilism drawn from disconnect with modernity

Question 6

T

Answer 6

Ellipsis epizeuxis
Ol consonance

Question 7

Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes a dead geranium

Answer 7

G
Beauty of Night contrasts working day
Anti modernism and isolation of night and feeling of anonymity

Question 8

G

Answer 8

Simile symbolism
Alliterative m
Time motif
Personification

Question 9

I have seen eyes in the street trying to peer through lighted shutters

Answer 9

E
Isolation form inside dwellers
Sinister nature of day

Question 10

E

Answer 10

Synecdoche light motif

Question 11

Put your shoes at the door sleep prepare for life
The last twist of the knife

Answer 11

K
Disconnection with city and modernity
Cyclical nature of life

Question 12

K

Answer 12

Juxtaposition
Irony
Parataxis imagery

Question 13

And then the lighting of the lamps

Answer 13

LL
City brought to life
Work longer modernity sense of hope juxtaposed with dreariness

Question 14

LL

Answer 14

Intertextuality motif of time
Mono stitch

Question 15

The world revolves like ancient women gathering fuel in vacant lots

Answer 15

A
All people do is survive just like ancient people
Sense of time
Cyclical life back to where we started

Question 16

A

Answer 16

Time motif
Simile
Fuel light sustenance symbolism

Question 17

A cold coming we had of it just the worst time of year

Answer 17

CC
Challenge of finding spiritual fulfillment allegory pilgrimage
POV magi perspective
Eliot’s context dreariness of life and hardship

Question 18

CC

Answer 18

Enjambement
Irony
Alliterative c harsh sound
Cold symbol of spiritual ignorance
Dreary imagery

Question 19

And the cities hostile and the town unfriendly and teh villages dirty and charging high prices

Answer 19

V
Repetitive hopeless eternity
Dreary imagery
Life and hardship
Comment on urbanisation and capitalisation and a sin

Question 20

V

Answer 20

Anaphora
Religious allusion usury
Personification of town decay of communication