Preludes Eliot's Journey Of The Magi

While a devastated modernity became immersed and oppressed by a sense of death in life, the prospects and implications of individual choices negate the escape of physical dislocation, providing hope of a new life. Eliot’s Journey of the Magi reiterates the hollow state of humanity, in Preludes, characterised by the covetous “silken girls bringing sherbet”, “liquor and women” and “summer places”, an indulgence and temptation lusted for by the void modern soul. The symbolic “voices singing” determines the dichotomy of human nature, influenced by the angelic voices, yet tempted by the devilish, developing a sort of scepticism, “this was all folly” to the concepts of hope and the religious dimension, diminishing any substance and desire in life. …show more content…
The hopeful “dawn” the Magi witness where “an old white horse galloped away in the meadow” foreshadows an apocalypse commanded by religion and hope, where modern society will be cleansed of all transgressions of “pieces of silver” and “empty wineskins”, inspired by humility and grace as opposed to greed and lust. This transformation embodies the experiences of Eliot’s own conversion to Anglicanism, “arriving not a moment too soon” and wishing for “another death” to provide modernity with another opportunity for salvation and transform the corrupt ways of the