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T S Eliot

Eliot’s “Preludes” consists of four uneven parts: Part I has 13 lines with an uneven rhyme scheme. Part II has 10 lines, again with an uneven rhyme scheme. Part III and IV both have 16 lines, but again with uneven rhymes and fewer rhymes than Parts I and II. The haphazard rhymes parallel the speaker’s stream-of-consciousness remarks.
Part I: “The winter evening settles down”
The speaker is describing what he sees as “[t]he winter evening settles down.” He also lets his readers smell what he smells, the odour of “steaks in passageways.” It is the dinner hour, “six o’clock.” He colourfully describes the end of the day as “burnt-out ends of smoky days,” likening the end of the day to the butt of a cigarette.
The reader might recall in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” how the speaker describes evening as “a patient etherised upon a table.” Such an attitude toward evening signifies loneliness and melancholy.
Then, a rainstorm blows up:......


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