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TS Eliot Flashcards

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Peter Egri, 1974

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“Eliot’s world concept, both experienced and formed, is the reflection of unresolved contradictions”

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PRUFROCK

simile

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“Streets that follow like a tedious argument/ Of insidious intent”

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“Gathering fuel in vacant lots”

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PRELUDES

Paradox

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RHAPSODY

motif of time

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“Every street lamp that I pass/ Beats like a fatalistic drum”

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“Let me be no nearer/ In death’s dream kingdom”

“No nearer-/ Not that final meeting/ In the twilight kingdom”

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HOLLOW MEN

religious allusion

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Cornelia Cook, 1996

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“The way Eliot uses language… to convey both a godless world and a world where awareness of God is the gift of epiphanies is to engage with an intense and meaningful use of paratactic language”

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“There will be time/ To wonder”

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PRUFROCK

Motif of time

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PRELUDES

hyperbole

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“In a thousand furnished rooms”

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9
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“Do I dare/ disturb the universe?”

“Do I dare to eat a peach?”

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PRUFROCK

disjointed image

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“Dissolve the floors of memory/ And it’s clear relations/ It divisions and precisions”

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RHAPSODY

enjambment

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“Between the motion/ And the act”

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HOLLOW MEN

enjambment

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“With an alien people clutching their gods”

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JOURNEY

disconnected connotations

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JOURNEY

Certain tone

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“Set down/ This set down/ This: were we led all that way for/ Birth or Death?”

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Vincent Leitch, 1979

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“As Eliot’s consciousness of the nature of existence changes around the time of his conversion, so his poetic expressions of experience alter”

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Numbered structure

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PRELUDES

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“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be”

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PRUFROCK

intertextuality/literary allusion

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“With the other masquerades/ That time resumes”

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PRELUDES

motif of facades and time

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JOURNEY

high modality

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“I should be glad of another death”

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PRELUDES

personification

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“The conscience of a blackened street/ Impatient to assume the world”

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“Streets that follow like a tedious argument/ Of insidious intent”

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PRUFROCK

Simile

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HOLLOW MEN

enjambment

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“Between the motion/ And the act”

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“In a thousand furnished rooms”

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PRELUDES

hyperbole

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PRUFROCK

repetition

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“In a minute there is time/ For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse”

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“With the voices singing in our ears, saying/ That this was all folly”

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JOURNEY

pathos

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JOURNEY

pensive tone

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“We returned to our places, these kingdoms/ But no longer at ease here”

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24
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RHAPSODY

personification

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“As if the world gave up”

“The moon has lost her memory”

26
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“As if the world gave up”

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RHAPSODY

Personification

28
Q

“The notion of some infinitely gentle/ Infinitely suffering thing”

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PRELUDES

motif of time

29
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“No generalisation about modernism can afford to make an exception of Eliot”

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Louis Menand, 1996

30
Q

“To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet”

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PRUFROCK

motif of facades

31
Q

“We returned to our places, these kingdoms/ But no longer at ease here”

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JOURNEY

pensive tone

32
Q

“The conscience of a blackened street/ Impatient to assume the world”

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PRELUDES

personification

32
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PRELUDES

motif of facades and time

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“With the other masquerades/ That time resumes”

34
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HOLLOW MEN

Juxtaposition

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“Paralysed force”

35
Q

“In a minute there is time/ For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse”

A

PRUFROCK

repetition

38
Q

“Every street lamp I pass/ Beats like a fatalistic drum”

A

RHAPSODY

motif of time/ simile

39
Q

“As Eliot’s consciousness of the nature of existence changes around the time of his conversion, so his poetic expressions of experience alter”

A

Vincent Leitch, 1979

39
Q

HOLLOW MEN

religious allusion

A

“Let me be no nearer/ In death’s dream kingdom”

“No nearer-/ Not that final meeting/ In the twilight kingdom”

40
Q

Louis Menand, 1996

A

“Modernism is a reaction against the modern”

“No generalisation about modernism can afford to make an exception of Eliot”

40
Q

RHAPSODY

enjambment

A

“Dissolve the floors of memory/ And all it’s clear relations/ It’s divisions and precisions”

41
Q

“Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life/ The last twist of the knife”

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RHAPSODY

end rhyme

43
Q

“Paralysed force”

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HOLLOW MEN

paradox

43
Q

PRELUDES

I,II,III,IV

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Numbered structure

44
Q

PRUFROCK

Motif of facades

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“To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet”

45
Q

“Falls the shadow”

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HOLLOW MEN

repetition

46
Q

“The moon lost her memory”

A

RHAPSODY

personification

47
Q

“Set down/ This set down/ This: were we led all that way for/ Birth or Death?”

A

JOURNEY

certain tone/ enjambment

50
Q

“Sightless, unless/ The eyes reappear/ As the perpetual star/… The hope only/ Of empty men”

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HOLLOW MEN

religious allusion

52
Q

“This Birth was/ Hard and bitter agony for us, like death, our death”

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JOURNEY

enjambment

52
Q

JOURNEY

enjambment

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“This Birth was/ Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death”

53
Q

HOLLOW MEN

Repetition

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“Falls the shadow”

54
Q

“Modernism is a reaction against the modern”

A

Louis Menand, 1996

55
Q

“I should be glad of another death”

A

JOURNEY

high modality

59
Q

“Eliot’s world concept, both experienced and formed, is the reflection of unresolved contradictions”

A

Peter Egri, 1974

62
Q

PRELUDES

Motif of time

A

“The notion of some infinitely gentle/ Infinitely suffering thing”

63
Q

“The way Eliot uses language… to convey both a godless world and a world where awareness of God is the gift of epiphanies is to engage with an intense and meaningful use of paratactic language”

A

Cornelia Cook, 1996

64
Q

PRUFROCK

motif of time

A

“There will be time/ To wonder”

65
Q

JOURNEY

disconnected connotations

A

“With an alien people clutching their gods”

66
Q

PRUFROCK

intertextuality

A

“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be”

67
Q

JOURNEY

pathos

A

“With the voices singing in our ears, saying/ That this was all folly”

69
Q

HOLLOW MEN

religious allusion

A

“Sightless, unless/ The eyes reappear/ as the perpetual star/… the hope only/ of empty men”

70
Q

RHAPSODY

end rhyme

A

“Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life/ The last twist of the knife”

73
Q

PRELUDES

paradox

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“Gathering fuel in vacant lots”

78
Q

PRUFROCK

Disjointed image

A

“Do I dare/ Disturb the universe?”

“Do I dare to eat a peach?”

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