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T.S. Eliot's "Preface" by J. Peoples
T.S. Eliot’s “Preludes” are a series of four portraits of a city. The first and last portraits take place in the evening when the world settles down and the middle portraits take place in the morning and evening when the world is just waking or quieting down. It is interesting to note that Eliot prefers the beginning and ends of the day as his subject as opposed to the middle of the day. I notice that most of my poems take place in the morning or at night. Perhaps these are times when we are less busy and therefore more aesthetically attuned to our environment. In any case, Eliot shows that he is not very interested in what ordinary city people actually do during an average day. In this poem Eliot speaks of the alienation of urban people from their environment and from their world.

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