Biographical Information
In this year, T.S. Eliot was born
1888
This color was used to describe the fog and smoke against the window panes.
Yellow
“In the room the women come and go talking of _________”
Michelangelo
The name of the man who appears frequently in "The Love Song"
J. Alfred Prufrock
How Many epigraphs are at the start of The Hollow Men?
TWO
The name of T.S. Eliot’s first wife
Vivienne (High-wood Eliot)
Eliot uses this symbol to measure out the life of J. Alfred Prufrock
Coffee Spoons
“I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers _______”
Rolled
What are at least TWO features of modernist poetry?
Free verse, intertextuality, allusions, borrowing from other languages, fragmentation, juxtaposition
What is the first line after the epigraph in The Hollow Men?
"We are the hollow men/we are the stuffed men"
This poem was T.S. Eliot’s first
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
What does Prufrock question? Do I dare eat a_______
Peach
“I should have been a pair of ragged ________”
Claws
In What year did Eliot convert to Anglo-Catholicism?
1927
"Are quiet and ________ as ______ in dry grass"
Meaningless and wind
Name two contextual concerns that impacted upon Eliot's poetry
Industrialisation, secularisation, idoltary, war, lack of values/morals in society
This is the religious figure mentioned in the fourteenth stanza of "The Love Song"
Lazarus
“I do not think that they will _____ to me”
Sing
What is the first line of Preludes?
The winter evening settles down..
How does the poem end?
Not with a bang but a whimper
The T.S. in T.S. Eliot stand for _____.
Thomas Stearns
This symbol is used to represent the unattainability of the women J. Alfred Prufrock is attracted to.
The Mermaids
“In a minute there is time, For decisions and revisions which a minute will __________”
Reverse
The final words of "The Love Song"
('Til human voices wake us and) We drown
For Thine is the Kingdom...
What prayer cannot be finished?
The Lord's Prayer