Analysis of T.S. Elliot’s “The Rock”
We were asked to analyze T.S. Elliot’s poem “The Rock” based upon these three questions:
1. Where is the Life we have lost in living?
2. Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
3. Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Very few of Elliot’s poems tackled the ideals of technology
as much as this poem. His powerful words and beautiful rhymes schemes made this a wonderful work of literature.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
It is painfully obvious that Elliot is sickened by the sinful monotony of everyday life and has decidedly painted a dreadfully bleak picture of the human existence. This is noted in lines 3 through
5 where he uses words like ‘perpetual’ and ‘recurrence.’ From the numerous capitalizations and mentions of God, We’re almost sure that Eliot was a spiritual man and that he was very disappointed in the failing path that humans have chosen. Through determined capitalization leading to......
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