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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.