T.S. Elliot

• 11. Conversation Galante  I OBSERVE: “Our sentimental friend the moon! Or possibly (fantastic, I confess) It may be Prester John’s balloon Or an old battered lantern hung aloftTo light poor travellers to their distress.”       

•  5  She then: “How you digress!” And I then: “Someone frames upon the keys That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain The night and moonshine; music which we seizeTo body forth our own vacuity.”       

•  10  She then: “Does this refer to me?”  “Oh no, it is I who am inane.” “You, madam, are the eternal humorist,The eternal enemy of the absolute, Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!       

•  15With your air indifferent and imperious At a stroke our mad poetics to confute—”  And—“Are we then so serious?”

• I like a lot of the images in the love song of Alfred j. Prufrock, like “a patient etherized on a table.”

•I also like the line “In the room women come and go, talking of Michael Angelo”

– http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

- Has images of emasculation and sexual frustration as well weariness, regret, and embarassment.

- Took five years to finish

- Written as a dramatic monologue.

• http://www.shmoop.com/hollow-men/poem-text.html

• The opening of the poem is a reference to guy fawkes. “A penny for the old guy

• Some critics believe it’s about the passing into deaths three kingdoms.

• It was written in 1925.

• The post-war theme of his poems

• The college effect seen in some of his poetry.

• The imagery seen in T.S. Elliots poetry

• The imagery and the allusions in hollow men are very interesting.

• Shape without form, shade without colour,Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

• “Here we go round the prickly pearPrickly pear prickly pearHere we go round the prickly pearAt five o'clock in the morning.”

• “For Thine isLife isFor Thine is the”

• T.S. Elliot was a post WWI poet, and included many active setting references throughout his poetry.