MOD B Flashcards
(31 cards)
Urbanisation and societal decay
“ in the…” ( JAP )
“In the room women come and go, talking of Michelangelo”
- fragmentation
- historical allusion
Urbanisation and societal decay
“ to prepare…” ( JAP )
“ to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet”
- irony
Urbanisation & societal decay
“ the lamp…” ( Rhapsody on a windy night )
“ the lamp hummed: /
Regard the moon” “
- irony
Urbanisation & societal decay
“Preparing for…” ( Rhapsody )
“Preparing for life is
The last twist of the knife”
- Enjambment
Urbanisation & societal decay
“With all its muddy…”
“ all the hands …” (Preludes)
“With al, it’s muddy feet that press to early coffee - stands … all the hands raising dingy shades in a thousand furnished rooms”
- synecdoche
Societal conformity and worshipping of consumerism which has led to the same mundane repetitions daily = monotony
Urbanisation & societal decay
“ the morning …”
“ as the street …” ( Preludes )
“ the morning comes to consciousness”
“ as the street hardly understands”
- personification
Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ we are …” ( Hollow men )
“ we are the hollow men /
We are the stuffed men”
- metaphor
Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ Paralysed force …” ( Hollow men )
“ paralysed force, gesture without motion”
- antithetical phrase (directly opposed or contrasted)
Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ the notion of …” (Preludes)
“ the notion of some Infinitely gentle/
Infinitely suffering thing”
- tone
- Allusion
Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ I should be … “
“ I should be glad of another death”
- allusion
- Tonal shift
Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ for thine is … “ ( Hollow men )
“ for thine is / life is / for thine is the”
- broken syntax
- fragmentation
Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ alien people …” ( Magi)
“ alien people clutching their Gods”
- metaphor
Spirituality & spiritual connection
“ Hard and …” ( Magi )
“ Hard and bitter death”
- metaphor
Conformity
“ Shall I part …” ( Prufrock)
“ shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach”
- rhetorical question
Conformity
“ should I, after tea …” ( Prufrock)
“ should I after tea and cakes and ices/have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
- tricolon ( tea and cakes and ices)
Conformity
“ we are the …” ( Hollow men )
“ we are the stuffed men leaning together headpiece filled with straw”
- Metaphor
- Symbolism
Conformity
“ With all its … “ ( Preludes )
“ with all its muddy feet that press/ To early coffee stands.”
- Synecdoche
Conformity
“ shape without from …” ( Hollow men )
“ shale without form/ shade without colour,/ pa
- oxymoron - illustrates self as a contradiction, missing integral qualities.
Time & passing of time
“ six o’clock” or “half past-one” ( preludes and rhapsody)
“ six o’clock” or “half past-one”
- fragmentation - into distinct items highlights how life has been centred around the notion of time and these fragmentation of life
Time & passing of time
“Running stream “ (magi)
“Running stream”
- symbolism - timelessness associated with a river as a liminal space reflects the relative interpretation of the.
Time & passing of time
“ with other Masquerades…” ( Preludes)
“ with other masquerades/ that time resumes”
- motif
- parallelism - parallels time with a “ masquerades” criticising how humans waste their life around an illusion which is time, reinforced by emphasis in the cyclic nature of day and night.
Time & passing of time
“ I grow old old …” ( Prufrock )
“ I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled”
- repetition
- rhyme despite prufrock submitting to the ephemerality(lasting for very short) of time, he is still unable to engage with his external world due to his obsession with time, resulting in his futil struggle of “human voice wak[ing] us, and we drown”
Time & passing of time
“ there will be …” ( Prufrock)
“ there will be time, there will be time”
- repeated truncated sentences:
perception of time as never ending, detrimental due to the finite nature of life, contradiction to reality
Conformity
“Evening newspapers and …” (Preludes)
“Evening newspapers and eyes assured of certain certainties”
- sibilance
Reiterates conforming nature I’d modern society, in fear of ostracism individual perceivable nay given news as truth lacking capacity to critically think, the amalgamation of society ultimately preventing te diversification of society = monochromatic output.
