Preludes 1 4 by TS Eliot

Preludes 1-4 by T.S. Eliot


In this paper I will explain The Form, The Structure and The Meaning

in the Preludes I through IV written by T.S. Eliot.

Form is the metrical and stanziac organization of a poem. T.S. Eliot

write the first Prelude in a 13-line stanza. He writes the second Prelude in

Cinquains. He uses 15 stanza form in Prelude three. For Prelude four he uses

9-Quatrain-Tercet. I believe that he wrote these Preludes in Traditional

writting because it has metrics and stanziac writtings and Candence which is

phrases which fall into Symmetrical or almost Symmetrical patterns observed

when speech rhythm is highly organized also known as Free Speech.

Structure is the fromal asspect of a poem seperated from form

including the arrangement and developement of images, metaphors and

various statements and situations in relation to the theme. Some of the

Structures used are Ambiguity, double or multiple meanings attached to

words or situations, and then the lighting of the lamps, Symbolism, a word

or image that signafies something other than what it represents, raising

dingy shades in a thousand furnished...

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