(Hardy/Eliot) Fear
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- Created on: 03-12-18 14:19
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- Fear
- Hollow Men
- 'Not with a bang but a whimper'
- 'whimper' suggests cowardice (society is unable to function)
- Men are 'trapped inside their own...private cave of feeling' seen with 'unflattering exactness'
- Onomat-opoeia suggest a metaphorical bomb
- Survived WW1, but real death will be of society
- Sound alludes to postwar PTSD
- Paradoxical effect of 'hollow' + 'stuffed' (souls cannot be reformed)
- Repetition of 'Between' (trapped in an intermittent state/ purgatory)
- Repetitive use of 'we' pronouns creates an inclusive effect
- Society is not a blank slate (beyond a mental breakdown)
- Not blessed to enter Dante's Paradiso
- Repetition of 'Between' (trapped in an intermittent state/ purgatory)
- 'whimper' suggests cowardice (society is unable to function)
- 'tumid river'/ 'multi foliate rose'
- Alludes to Dante's Paradiso (positivity/ salvation in death)
- Dante's Inferno: river Acheron (damned must cross to enter the land of the dead)
- Contrasts to 'the crowd flowed over London Bridge'
- Swollen river suggests the underworld is drowning in the great number of deaths
- 'Not with a bang but a whimper'
- Animula
- 'curl up the small soul in the window seat behind the Encyclopedia'
- 'window' suggests enlightenment but is never opened
- Watches others but does not act (ignorance was bliss)
- Continuous theme of lack of movement (Prufrock)
- Poem follows a structure: in this section the 'soul withdraws from the world'
- 'Encyclopedia' is a modernist image, suggests education
- 'behind' creates a recessive/ backward effect
- Sibilance emphasises he is letting life slip away
- Hadrian died having lived a full life. Now Eliot fears for his soul
- 'the simple soul', (Dante's purgatory) a seeker of God who is deflected by daily trifles and follies.
- 'window' suggests enlightenment but is never opened
- 'curl up the small soul in the window seat behind the Encyclopedia'
- Untitled
- Hollow Men
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