"Preludes" by T.S. Eliot

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This paper reviews and discusses the poem "Preludes" by T.S. Eliot. The paper discusses how in this poem, Eliot addresses his thoughts to the second-person hearer. The paper then highlights examples of this style of writing and analyzes the intent of the author.

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"Part IV then reconnects the hearer with his world. The poet moves back to a collective vision of the world. The line "At four and five and six o'clock" signifies the cyclic nature of the mediocre, everyday, dirty events with which the human world concerns itself. At the end of this stanza, the whole of the world is connected with the part of the individual hearer. The individual is shown the context of his insight: the world is cyclic; each event, through the dirt, repeats.
Despite this, the poet does not seem to suggest that the individual should attempt to clean what is not clean. Instead, he suggests that there is comfort in the cycle. Instead of despite, the comfort exists as the very result of the grimy nature of the cycle: There is for the speaker, the hearer, and the world of which they are a part "The notion of some infinitely gentle/ Infinitely suffering thing".

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