Preludes

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"Preludes" is a modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that portrays the bleak, fragmented experience of urban life through a series of vivid, impressionistic scenes.

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instanceOf poem
author T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED
containsLiteraryDevice allusion
imagery
irony
metaphor
personification
synecdoche
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstLine The winter evening settles down
form lyric poem
genre modernist poetry
hasInfluenced modern urban poetry
imagery flickering streetlamps
grimy streets
muddy feet
smell of steaks in passageways
soiled hands
squalid city landscapes
influencedBy French symbolism
decadent movement NERFINISHED
urban modernity
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
narrativePerspective shifting third-person and second-person address
numberOfSections 4
partOf T. S. Eliot's early poetry
publicationPeriod early 20th century
setting modern city
urban streets
studiedIn 20th-century poetry curricula
modernist literature courses
style fragmented structure
free verse
impressionistic description
shifting perspectives
theme alienation
fragmentation of experience
loss of individuality
monotony of modern existence
moral and spiritual decay
spiritual desolation
urban life
tone bleak
disillusioned
melancholic

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