to push roughly
fireplace
to be part of a rush
to make knotted lace
needlework
a brown cat with black stripes
a coarseness to material
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The Question and Answer section for T.S. Eliot: Poems is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
A 'prelude' – literally 'before the play' – is a brief musical composition that is played before the main piece. This suggests that these poems are small-scale: as well as being short, they are seeking to capture something small, in this case the...
Religion is a potent theme that surfaces in the poetry of T.S. Eliot. Eliot discusses its relevance for a modern age beset by moral degeneration, war and uncertainty. Eliot's work is characterised by its extensive use of intertextuality,...
Book V? Analogies make connections between those things that are familiar, and those that are not. In this section, which was written to follow the climbing of Snowdon Downs, Wordsworth is making a connection between man and nature.
