(Hardy/Eliot) Religion
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- Created on: 14-03-19 09:40
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- Religion
- Animula
- 'curl up the small soul in the window seat behind the Encyclopedia'
- 'Encyclopedia' is a modernist image, suggests education
- 'window' suggests enlightenment but is never opened
- Watches others but does not act (ignorance was bliss)
- Sibilance emphasises he is letting life slip away
- 'behind' creates a recessive/ backward effect
- Continuous theme of lack of movement (Prufrock)
- Poem follows a structure: in this section the 'soul withdraws from the world'
- Hadrian died having lived a full life. Now Eliot fears for his soul
- Dante’s/ Eliot's soul is compared to a seeker of God who is deflected by daily trifles and follies.
- 'curl up the small soul in the window seat behind the Encyclopedia'
- Places
- 'the stammering chimes'
- Metaphor for his faltering religious beliefs
- 'chimes' can signify death and birth (often joyous)
- 'bedtime hour' has connotations of death
- 'night, morn and noon' suggests continuity - acknowledges importance of religion to her
- 'the stammering chimes'
- In A Waiting Room
- 'the table bore a Testament...if suchwise bent'
- 'if' sounds skeptical, alludes to his atheism
- Personified + plosive - 'bore/ bent' suggests religion is a burden
- Disrespectful verbs 'scrawled' + 'scoffingly' - religion is a hoax (can't stop train)
- 'thronging' highlights the corruption of the Church
- 'day of doom'
- 'd' alliteration falls heavily at the end of the sentence
- Alludes to judgement day (no afterlife)
- 'the table bore a Testament...if suchwise bent'
- Journey of the Magi
- 'a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness'
- 'mill' alludes to making of bread + Christ and therefore salvation
- Eliot was Baptised into the 'anglo-catholic' church in 1927
- Flowing water suggests change + purification
- 'beating' is personified (generating energy/life)
- 'Darkness' suggests sin
- 'We returned to our places'
- Echoes post-war disillusioned society
- 'Death, our Death'
- ('our') - idea that Christ died for humanity
- Metaphor for death of old ways - reincarnation
- Dares not 'disturb the universe'
- 'mill' alludes to making of bread + Christ and therefore salvation
- 'a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness'
- Animula
- 'The Fire Sermon' references the Buddhist ritual of ridding oneself of worldly pleasures
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