T.S. Eliot portrays the world as a dark lonely place that lacks life. He uses imagery to create a crisp image in the minds of his readers and uses figurative language to create a mood. The way he uses rhythm also amplifies the effect of the poem. T.S. Eliot's Preludes instills the ideas of loneliness and decay through the use of imagery by appealing to different senses, the use of figurative language, and rhythm.
The poem is riddled with imagery from the first stanza to the last. It sets the scene as evening in the winter which conveys the feeling of being cold. Then solidifies the darkness by describing nightfall as “burnt-out ends of smoky days” (4), which can be connected to a cigarette. Many of