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Exploring T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion": A Modernist Reflection on Post-WWI Europe

T.S. Eliot's poem "Gerontion," first published in 1920, offers a poignant monologue from an elderly speaker reflecting on the tumultuous state of Europe after World War I. This work, part of the modernism movement, showcases Eliot's innovative use of literary techniques including imagery, allusion, and personification. With eight stanzas and simple punctuation, the poem opens with a striking epigraph and presents a blend of rhetorical questions and metaphors, capturing the complex emotions of a gerontic figure. "Gerontion" serves as a precursor to Eliot's later masterpiece, "The Waste Land."

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Exploring T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion": A Modernist Reflection on Post-WWI Europe

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  1. thesis Statement • The poem Gerontion by T.S Eliot is about the opinion and impressions of a gerontic through a monologue that describes Europe after WWI

  2. context • First published in 1920 • Eliot considered using this poem as a preface to another work of his called “The Waste Land”. • Part of the modernism movement • This poem has two other versions the original script named Gerousia and the second version which has commentary by Ezra Pound

  3. form • The poem opens up with a epigraph • Has a total of 8 stanzas • 2 stanzas with 2 lines • Simple punctuation • The first word in the whole poem is capitalized

  4. Language/stylistic technique • Tone : Located in lines 43-50 • Allusion located in lines 7-8 • Allusion located in lines 55-60

  5. Figurative language/figures of speech • Rhetorical Question: Located in stanza 5 line 34,stanza 6 line 58-60 also stanza 7 line 65-67 • Imagery : Ex-” Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain .I was neither at the hot gates nor fought in the warm rain. • Personification: Located in stanza 7 lines 71 and 73

  6. Figurative language/figures of speech Cont’d • Metaphor: The tiger • Juxtaposition: Also the tiger

  7. sound • Alliteration: Located in stanza 5 line 34 • Repetition • Free Verse

  8. conclusion • The poem “Gerontion” by T.S Eliot is about an older man and his views and opinions about WWI. Eliot uses allusions, imagery and personification to get the mood/tone of the mans thoughts acrosss to the reader.

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