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In TS Eliot’s ‘Preludes’, imagery and metaphor are used to portray the bleakness and monotony of modern urban life. The poem’s imagery evokes a sense of decay, isolation and disconnection through concrete sensory details like “grimy scraps”, “newspapers from vacant lots”, and “broken blinds”. Metaphorically, the urban landscape is portrayed as a place of stasis and inertia, with the city itself becoming a metaphor for the fragmented and disconnected personalities of its inhabitants. #AVBOBpoetry