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1
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what is paragraph one about in rhapsody

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deconstruction of the modern individual amidst industrialisation

2
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quote 1

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by juxtaposing the similes, “Every street lamp that I pass/Beats like a fatalistic drum” and “Midnight shakes the memory/As a madman shakes a dead geranium”,

3
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explanation 1

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where the succession of morbid images reflects the loss of the old hopes and ideals of Romanticism (the geranium) amidst routine.

4
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quote 2

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the personification, “the memory throws up high and dry/As if the world gave up/The secret of its skeleton.”

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explanation 2

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This sickly action, symbolising the brutal deterioration of memory, frames the dehumanising representation of the person, who is reduced to a ‘skeleton’

6
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quote 3

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the entropic mechanical images in the persona’s interiority, “A broken spring in a factory yard, Rust that clings”

7
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explanation 3

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reflecting the devastating spiritual damage from urbanisation.

8
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what is paragraph 2 about

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the corruption of modern society due to industrial values

9
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quote 4

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beginning with “Regard that woman/You see the border of her dress/is torn and stained with sand.”

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explanation 4

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Through the woman, who symbolises temptation and ill repute and the stain, Eliot comments on the spiritual immorality of his age and yearns for the idealistic purity of Romanticism.

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quote 5

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the mangy olfactory imagery of “Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter/And devours a morsel of rancid butter.”

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explanation 5

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evokes a constant impression of grime within the urban consciousness.

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quote 6

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Eliot’s chilling, first person admission, “I could see nothing behind that child’s eye”

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explanation 6

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where the child becomes a machine.

Through the literary significance of the child as innocence and the eye as a window to the soul,