Ts Eliot Flashcards
(29 cards)
Prufrock Q1
“the evening like a patient etherised”
Prufrock Q2
“in the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo”
Prufrock Q3
“Prophet” “Lazarus”
Prufrock Q4
“Till human voices wake us and we drown”
Prufrock critic
“his fictions insulate and preserve him in a solipsistic dream” (Childs, 1988)
Prufrock layering
“a bald spot” “do I dare disturb the universe?” “do I dare eat a peach” “how his arms and legs are thin” “I grow old… I grow old…”
Preludes Q1
“six o’clock… four and five and six o’clock”
Preludes Q2
“thousand sordid images of which your soul was constituted”
Preludes Q3
“eyes assured of certain certainties”
Preludes Q4
“the worlds revolve like ancient women gathering fuel in vacant lots”
Preludes critic
the “crooked machine” (Camus) that is modern living
Prufrock Baudelaire
the flaneur “is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito”
Rhapsody Q1
“twelve o’clock… half-past one… four o’clock”
Rhapsody Q2
“the street lamp sputtered…”
Rhapsody Q3
“put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life”
Rhapsody layering
“beat like a fatalistic drum”
HM Q1
“Mistah Kurtz - he dead”
HM Q2
“stone images are raised”
HM Q3
“the shadow”
HM Q4
“for thine is the kingdom” “for thine is life is”
HM extra
“this is cactus land” “hollow men” “eyes I dare not meet…” “fading star” “this is the way the world ends… not with a bang but a whimper”
Magi Q1
“a cold coming we had of it”
Magi Q2
“temperate valley” “smelling of vegetation”
Magi Q3
“finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory”
