Preludes (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Roads, streets, or highways, Spiritual life or spirituality, Emotions, Women, City life, Time, Winter, Wind, Rain, Night
The Poem
“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 title is appropriate if it suggests a type of short musical composition in an improvisational or free style. Since some of the images in this very early poem anticipate the barren, rubble-filled atmosphere of The Waste Land (1922) and other poems, it could be considered a...
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