Lose Heart
T.S. Eliot's poem "The Winter Evening Settles Down" and Ernest Hemingway's short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," both share the same theme of the alienation of the individual from society. It is the moods of desolation and despair, loneliness and struggle that reflect both authors' observations of the individual alienated from society.
In his poem, Eliot reveals the first clue to the mood of the poem in his first line.
The winter evening settles down
The word winter might symbolize roughness, coldness and lifelessness. Here, Eliot is not in one of his happy moods, having referred to winter in the very first line. The word following winter is the image of evening, which symbolizes night, the approach of darkness. In the first line, Eliot establishes some type of dreary tone, as if suggesting that this "winter evening" is here to stay from now on. The poet writes other symbols that give a meaning of the boredom and dreariness of life. For instance:
The burnt-out ends of......
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