And then the lighting of the lamps. To early coffee-stands. In a thousand furnished rooms. They flickered against the ceiling. In the palms of both soiled hands. Impatient to assume the world. Infinitely suffering thing. Gathering fuel in vacant lots. Copyright Credit: T. S. Eliot, "Preludes" from Collected Poems: 1909-1962.

And the light crept up between the shutters And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands; Sitting along the bed’s edge, where You curled the papers from your hair, Or clasped the yellow soles of feet In the palms of both soiled hands. IV . His soul stretched tight across the skies

And the light crept up between the shutters And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands; Here, the speaker returns to the listener, the person or people he referred to as “You” in the first stanza.

30 And when all the world came back. 31 And the light crept up between the shutters. 32 And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, 33 You had such a vision of the street. 34 As the street hardly understands; 35 Sitting along the bed’s edge, where. 36 You curled the papers from your hair, 37 Or clasped the yellow soles of feet.

And when all the world came back And the light crept up between the shutters, And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands ...

Summary: The poem Preludes is made up of a sequence of descriptions of details of urban experience. The first prelude describes a dirty, wet winter evening with the smell of stale food in the passageways. The second prelude deals with a …

And when all the world came back and the light crept up between the shutters and you heard the sparrows in the gutters, you had such a vision of the street as the street hardly understands; Sitting along the bed’s edge, where you curled the papers from your hair, or clasped the yellow soles of feet in the palms of both soiled hands.

And when all the world came back and the light crept up between the shutters, and you heard the sparrows in the gutters, you had such a vision of the street as the street hardly understands.

Oct 29, 2023 · Eliot’s sketch of the city life, through sordid and shabby images, shows how the urban cityscape suffocates human soul. The lighting of the lamps becomes a dystopic image of disillusionment, bringing to mind the “darkness visible” which illuminated only infernal sufferings in Milton’s “Paradise Lost”. The morning comes to consciousness.

And the light crept up between the shutters And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands; Sitting along the bed’s edge, where You curled the papers from your hair, Or clasped the yellow soles of feet In the palms of both soiled hands. IV. His soul stretched tight across the skies