T.S Eliot wrote a poem, “Preludes,” which could be a critic of modernity as well as industrialism. Furthermore, the suffering it brings. This is included by first describing the setting in which the poem takes place on line 6 Eliot writes, “The grimy scraps,” and line 7, “Of withered leaves about your feet,” show it. Eliot uses words like grimy and withered to show a setting that is bleak. Then, in the third stanza of the poem Eliot switches to a second person point of view. That means the reader is then the speaker, which could mean the audience of this could have been people outside the working class. The poor that worked in the cities at factories. With line 27 Eliot writes, “The thousand sordid images,” sordid means gross and on line 28
