resence. In of withered leaves about your feet/ and newspapers from vacant lots(7-8), he makes the non-living, unimportant objects, the focuses of his sentences.Most of the poem is described outside, the winter evening(1) where it is cold and desolate. In stanza III we go inside, where it proves that it is no cleaner, or clasped the yellow soles of feet/ In the palms of both soiled hands(37-38), than outside. Eliot writes of how the world is suffering and how nothing was done by them to deserve this with wipe your hand across your mouth and laugh;/ The worlds revolve like ancient women/ gathering fuel in vacant lots(52-54). Eliot has created a world of ugliness, dirt, and darkness. He uses many forms of imagery to convey this scene to the reader. He uses word choice, literal imagery, description of human extremities and presence, and rhythm. T.S. Eliot writes about a world of suffering and hopelessness and creates a physically powerful emotion with his readers that they feel the desperation of the world, through his imagery. ...
