PRELUDES BY T.S. ELIOT

Preludes by T.S. Eliot

Preludes by T.S. Eliot

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“Preludes” is a lyric poem in free verse, divided into four numbered parts of thirteen, ten, fifteen, and sixteen lines. These sections were written at different times during T. S. Eliot's years of undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard University and in Europe. The point of view shifts from an objective description of a city street on a “gusty” winter evening in prelude I to a more emotional first-person response to this scene in the middle of IV. The “you” in preludes I and IV could refer to the reader or to ...