eliot
... conveys an image of a winter evening. It is superficially disillusive as there are numerous usages of simple techniques such as sentence lengths, alliteration and enjambment. The effects of these create a more vivid image and reinforcing or hinting at subtle ideas that Eliot may be concerned with. The first section begins with repeated soft sibilant “s” sounds in “THE WINTER evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock.” This usage of hissing sounds provides an unattractive image of the settings by emphasising the words smell and steak, appealing the audience’s sense of smell. In this technique, Eliot also creates the superficial disillusion with this technique as it paints a very simple picture of not much meaning. Eliot brings out the deep concern for civilisation through the long list of sordid images that he paints to the reader. He uses the long sentence “And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps…” to produce an endless list of vivid descriptions, expanding the audience’s perspective of the setting. There are also alliterated sounds which emphasises aspects of this sordid setting. Examples of this can be seen in “broken blinds” and “A lonely cab-horse steam and stamps” as these images draw emphasis on more unattractive images. This string of unattractive images is Eliot’s criticism to civilisation as it has “gone wrong...