The Question and Answer section for Preludes is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The poem is a series of vignettes of alienated and desperate life in the modern city. It is an important example of early modernism both in subject and in style. Eliot drew on the earlier French writers Charles-Louis Philippe and Charles...
The poem is divided into four parts, or four preludes.... hence, the title.
I'm sorry, are you referring to work by T.S. Eliot? If so, there is no character by the name of Nenita.
Preludes" contains many images of human life reduced to something partial, sinister, and broken. In the third prelude, this is expressed most directly as “The thousand sordid images/Of which your soul was constituted.” A soul, which should be...
