Posted by katinka on June 10, 19104 at 04:35:57:

In Reply to: Re: i need help for english project on PRELUDES posted by mara on July 02, 19101 at 18:42:16:

Preludes, a moving T.S Eliot poem, takes place in a modern city containing different time periods during the day. The center theme is alienation of the individual from society quite similar to “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. Utilising vivid imagery the mood of the poem is set as misery, despair, loneliness and struggle, using words such as “burnt out”, “grimy”, “lonely” and “broken”. The use of the words “all” and “thousands” separate him from society, making him alienated from the normal rituals of the morning. The protagonist in this poem is rather pessimistic and sees the universe as meaningless “you heard the sparrows in the gutters”. Elliot is focuses on the struggle of a man’s attempt to rationalise a worthless and empty universe.

Another theme evident in the poem is time. The poem is based around different times of day. Time is a limitation, and it suggests that time formulates people to a continual cycle during life “One thinks of all the hands that are raising dingy shades in a thousand furnished rooms.” The poem is quite negative, in Preludes Ï the poem shifts to morning, but instead of the freshness and optimism normally asociated with this time, the morning is depicted as a drunk awaking as the “morning comes to consciousness”

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