T.S. Elliott!!!

ok, so I think we had to blog about how T.S. Elliott's poem structure helped convey the theme/meaning. Well, he had it written very formally, I guess that would be the word, like it was written in perfect lines and not all over the place like William Carlos Williams poem. I think the regularity of Elliott's poem shows the wallflower part of him more and how everything just kind of blends and doesn't stand out. But then theres a few lines that do break away from the pack and are alone. I think these lines represent the part of him thats wants to be mad for life and is scared of dying and missing the oppurtunites. He sees all that he's missed, he seen a flicker of his greatness and he's let it go. His structure shows his struggle to be both in his life and not one of the two extremes. Being a wallflower is dominating the poem though because that whats he is and he doesn't know how to escape it.