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T.S. Eliot’s Poetical Devices
T.S. Eliot was one of the great early 20th Century poets. He wrote many poems throughout his career including “The Waste Land”(1922), “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”(1917), and “Ash Wednesday”(1930). Throughout his poems, he uses the same poetic devices to express emotion and give an added depth to his poetry and act like a trademark in his works. One of the devices used throughout is his personification of nature. The second device he often uses is allusions to Greek mythology, Greek plays, and the Christian bible. Finally, the last device he often uses is imagery of death. Throughout the poems mentioned above this is especially apparent as it makes them all seem identifiable to his style.
T. S. Eliot often personifies nature in his poetry to intensify its importance in his poetry. The first example comes from the poem “The Waste Land” where it says “The jungle crouched, humped in silence” Since a jungle cannot crouch it shows how Eliot uses......

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