Rhapsody on a Windy Night This modernist text reflects the conflicted emotions and perspectives regarding the war and its aftermath. The odd an almost non-sensual literature presented by T.S. Elliot is enhances by the detailed imagery he embodies. Corresponding with the modernist literature movement‚ Elliot manifests Surrealist notions of an unconscious‚ abstract and dream-like atmosphere within his poetry‚ utilising the subconscious mind as a medium. As Rhapsody on a Windy Night depict mainly
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Rhapsody paragraph The concept of life in a modern culture can be explored within the separate constructs of superficiality and lack of control. The idea of the superficial existence of living death is supported by J. Young in his views on the degradation of society. Wright‚ however believes that it is a spiritual death brought about through a lack of control in the social context of the present that Eliot is trying to portray. Through an analysis of both of these contexts‚ a social comment can be
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In an extended written response‚ explain what insights into the concept of identity are offered in “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and how these insights are conveyed. ’Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ is s poem written by T. S. Elliot which expresses the thoughts of a character alienated from society‚ and the meaningless routines of everyday life. ’Rhapsody’ is an insight into the narrators mind whilst on a midnight stroll‚ and with the use of vivid imagery‚ Elliot manages to persuade the reader into
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long sentences‚ many of which continue throughout a whole stanza. These longer sentences are typically extended metaphors or involve a metaphysical way of thinking that is portrayed frequently throughout the whole work and this is seen in “Rhapsody on a Windy Night.” “Twelve o’clock.
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Q. Explain how T.S Eliot’s poems “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and “Preludes” express modernist concerns Modernist concerns are expressed through T.S Eliot’s poems ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ‘Preludes’. Eliot uses his fragmented childhood experiences and his thoughts on the squalor modern life to express the issues of meaningless life‚ isolation‚ the alienation and loneliness that the humans feel and lastly the damaged psyche of humanity. The issues of meaningless life is expressed through complex
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The 1900s was a period of increasing industrialization of which society saw a growing sense of disillusionment. TS Eliot conveys aspects of modernism through his poems Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock and Rhapsody on a Windy Night‚ such as the increasing alienation of society‚ the loss of identity and the dismissal of functional traditional conventions. Eliot achieves this through the prevalent themes of time and memory‚ and the depiction of the urban environment. The isolation of individuals within
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Rhapsody on a Windy Night Analysis From the opening line Eliot engages the audience by having an auspicious beginning. By using “twelve o’clock”‚ he has taken an ungrammatical sentence and used it as a bridging between two days. He does this as a way of setting up the novelistic functions within his poetry‚ a common feature of his writing. He continues with his narrative technique by following the time by the place in which the poem is set. The “lunar synthesis” referred to in the first stanza
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Twelve o’clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis‚ Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of memory And all its clear relations‚ Its divisions and precisions. Every street lamp that I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum‚ And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium. Half-past one‚ The street-lamp sputtered‚ The street-lamp muttered‚ The street-lamp said
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Rhapsody on a windy night was written directly after Preludes and echoes many of its themes. Rhapsody... charts the night-time journey of a man through the streets of a city. Held in a trance by the moonlight‚ he is shown various sights by the street lamps he passes‚ and these sights evoke images‚ feelings and recollections. From the sights revealed by the lamps‚ and the responses they induce‚ a portrait of the city life is painted. The poem begins by establishing the scene. A man is wandering "Along
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century) changed the face of poetry. The Nobel Prize winning poet’s original and inventive style is credited with viewing the world as it appears‚ without making any optimistic judgements. Eliot’s poems ‘Journey of the Magi’ (1927) and ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ (1920) both explore the fragility of the human mind (an idea streaming directly from the era of Modernist poetry‚ where writers perceived the world as fragmented and alienated)‚ showcasing his original and abstract style of writing and‚
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