Although Eliot looks at the world through a dark glass, his colourless vision is vividly clear.

Negativity, that’s all it is about. Eliot looks at the negative side of life but through he’s use of language techniques, the colourless visions, which he brings across, are so vividly clear.

Throughout Eliot’s poetry he uses negative images in Portrait of a Lady, The love song of J. Alfred Profrock and Rhapsady on a windy night. This is done by using numerous language techniques, including alliteration, metaphors, similes, personification, onomatopoeia and repetition.

In Portrait of a Lady Eliot uses alliteration to give the reader a vivid image of the torture which his is experiencing when listening to the music, this is described in the passage “Among the windings of the violins, And the ariettes of cracked cornets, inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins”.

Eliot compares life to a worn out old street piano that repeats the same old song over and over again. Eliot makes an example of this in the lines ‘Except when a street-piano, mechanical and tired, Reitera

“I mounted the stairs and turned the handle of the door, And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees”. In this statement Eliot uses metaphor to describe how painful it is for him, as he feels like he is having to creel to her to tell her that he is going over seas. This statement is affective as it gives the reader a clear image of what Eliot is experiencing on his way to tell the lady that he is leaving.

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