" (1-3). He utilizes iamb tetrameter in the first two lines, and then, as if ripping us from our daze, he puts in "Six o'clock" (3). This warns us that this poem is not going to be a nice and calm. He continues this style in the lines which follow, "[t]he burnt-out ends of smoky days./ And now a gusty shower wraps/ The grimy scraps/ Of withered leaves about your feet. And newspapers from vacant lots/ the showers beat" (4-9). It is almost as if he is preparing the reader for what is to come later on in the poem.Eliot also uses an interesting way to describe the people in the poem. Only in stanza III does he actually describe a person. In the stanzas that came before that and in the stanzas that come after that, he only describes body parts and not the whole person, and example of this is "withered leaves about your feet"(7), and "[o]nethinks of all the hands"(21). He only applies the extremities in the presence of actual human parts. Possibly because they're the farthest ones from the heart. He also uses the human presence or what humans built to describe the humans in the poem, an example of this is, "[t]o early coffee stands" and "[w]ith smell of steaks..."(2). He makes what we've done out to be more important then people or individuals. Most of the poem is outside, where there's no warmth. "The winters evening" (1) portrays a cool winters night, with no relief. "...[S]mell of steaks in passageways" (2) makes it seem like there is food insight, but unreachable for the person outside. There's no comfort for the soul or body. Then in Stanza III we go inside, where Eliot imagery shows us that it is no better inside. "[T]housand sordid images/ Of which your soul was constituted" (27-28), is an example that the thoughts of the people inside are just as bad as the thoughts of the people outside. "Or clasped the yellow soles of feet/ In the palms of both soiled hands"(37-38), proves that inside it is no cleaner for the mind or soul, then ...
