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Austin Horton
Silence
Austin Horton
P6
12/7/14
Silence
In the poem "Silence" T.S Eliot utilizes an array of rhetorical devices in order to eventually develop the theme of society becoming more and more disconnected and worried about the now to see their own future and world around them. Eliot utilizes metaphors in order to develop his idea that society has began to detach itself from being selfaware. Also, he utilizes ambiguity in order to be able to get his point about society across.
First off, Eliot's use of metaphors allows for us to grasp the concept that he is trying to explain to us. For example, he says "Yet the garrulous waves of live shrink and divide";to
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It truly is terrifying how society has become enveloped by minute things that now have control over our daily lives. A part that tells me that this is true is when he says "vexed and debated" which to me sounds like they have been taken control of by material things. Eliot's use of12/15/2014 Jupiter Ed https://login.jupitered.com/app/0.php?user=1014501 2/2 ambiguity allows for this also to interpreted as an obstacle in someone's life. If someone has an obstacle in their life people handle it differently now than before. Also, when he says "This is the ultimate hour, when life is justified" I understood two things which was that he is now beginning to reflect on his life but I also interpret that rush hour is now over and now people are no longer running through the streets with the hope of making it back and forth from their job. This ambiguity can be seen as a type of logos because he expresses his ideas in a way that can still be understood or seen in the same context as a different understanding.
In conclusion, I believe that Eliot's use of literary devices was very effective in allowing for him to make his theme apparent. His use of metaphors allows for a deeper meaning to the text to develop,
In “Lovely Stones” by Christopher Hitchens, the author uses rhetorical devices such as parallelism, ethos, and pathos to convince the audience to help conserve and protect ancient Athens’ statues. One of the rhetorical devices the author used was parallelism, he used it to give the article flow and more of a rhythm to follow through. The second rhetorical device the author used was ethos in the article to intrigue the readers ethics and rightness. The last rhetorical device the author used was pathos, he used pathos to pique the interest of the audience with emotional context. These rhetorical devices were used strategically to convince the readers to help support the cause.
Eliot uses allusions and imagery to make several references to characters—both real and fictional—to vicariously show how Prufrock feels. The first allusion is an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno:
By looking through a critical lens at T Stearns Eliot’s poetry in light of his 20th century, modernist context, much is revealed about his personal and the rapidly evolving societal beliefs of that era. Through his repeating motif of time and fragmentation throughout his poems, Eliot reveals the prevalent feelings of isolation while in society along with the need to hide one’s feelings and emotions in this degrading society. His exploration of the use of ambiguity and stream of consciousness by Eliot, which is a characteristic of modernist artists, allows his work to resound over decades while being interpreted and differently understood by every audience that encounters them.
“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now- and the ship had gone.” Pg 91
of the themes in the novel easier to see and decipher. Using the archetypes that he did
He tries to explain his point of view of Hell so we can have an idea of what and how is the afterlife. Every bad decision or action will be paid up in hell. Everyone in hell is divided based on the relationship between the offense committed and the punishments deserved. He wants people to understand and identify themselves with the importance of life and a person’s relationship with God. Based on committing good actions and decisions, we must leave to look for salvation in the afterlife. The action of doing the right thing is what lead you to better outcomes and fewer punishments in the
Poetry can sometimes allow one to explore the unknown. However, in some works of poetry, one can realise that some known ideas or values remain relevant to current society. This is certainly applicable to T.S. Eliot’s poems, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Rhapsody on a Windy Night. Eliot’s manipulation of poetic techniques in both these poems allows the responder to realise that some ideas prevail in both modern and post-modern society. These poems explore the unknown phenomena of the obscurity regarding the purpose and meaning of life. This unknown phenomena causes the persona in both texts to resort to a sense of isolation or alienation. Eliot uses poetic techniques such as metaphors and personification to convey his ideas.
Eliot uses metaphors in “Preludes” and “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” to show that thoughts
Professor Foster described Eliot’s metaphor as a graveyard and when on to describe how the eel can create a path and create new stories and ideas with the other
Eliot spoke about has been achieved by Amy Lowell magnificently. Therefore, she reached the Traditional sense as both the Historical and Traditional sense are the faces of the same coin. She knew that the past and the present are both connected by one web. It was apparent when she connected the chain of events in the poem to her advantage just to show this problem. The problem by living a life of “patterns” and being bound by society, which makes this poem not that original, because many people spoke about this problem before, but she herself as a talented writer, she added more to it. These “patterns” would represent us going into life with the same cycle over and over, almost like a daily routine, that each day takes a part away, till we all left empty-handed without any sort of feelings or
Eliot was living in an era that people were facing a very hard time. World War changed a lot of things for everyone. A lot of cities were destructed and a lot of people were dead and so it was basically a wasteland, and for this reason Eliot was mostly concerned about the society as a whole and how they all want to move on from this mess and not how each individual could be a better
I think this style of writing is also a reflection of Eliot's feelings about the time. Eliot was more of a Modernist than Victorian poet and as such held to beliefs like: there is no higher power in the universe, man is alone on this planet to govern his own affairs, everyone is truly alone, there is no unity, no support, for we live in a godless heartless world (Stacey Donohue). The floating, confusing, jumbled mix of emotions and directions in this poem mirrors the modernist image of society.
Eliot uses metaphor to relate accessible, physical entities and concepts to more abstract themes present in the poem. In
Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot, in their respective poems, share a sense of alienation, not only from other people but from nature and God as well. Arnold is writing in an age when the place of man in the universe is coming into question, for the first time since the advent of Christianity. He can no longer take the same solace in nature and the love of God that his Romantic predecessors did. While Arnold comments on isolation, however, he still addresses himself to a lover in Dover Beach, whereas Prufrock is presented as a man who has completely retreated within himself. Eliot's isolation is total.
Eliot is not solely criticising modern life in the poem, it also serves as a reflection of Eliot’s social context and his own life, a product of its time.