Rhapsody On A Windy Night Essay

The poem Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T.S. Eliot creates a sense of emptiness by showing the moral failings of society and the loss of memory that is present throughout the world. Eliot creates this sense of a lack of morals by showing the thieving child who does not hesitate to reach out and steal a toy running along the pier, pocketing it without any reaction. Then Eliot mentioned that he could see nothing behind the child’s eye.” With this quote, Eliot uses a metaphor to create a sense of emptiness and lack of morality within the child, which is backed up by the lack of hesitation in the child’s actions. Eliot uses this to creates the sense that society does what it wants and to and does not consider others when doing so. In the context that this poem was written in, those who could afford it did whatever they wished to do and those who could not did only what they

Eliot writes “Regard that woman who hesitates towards you in the light of the door, which opens on her like a grin.” By implying that this woman is a prostitute in this stanza, he furthers the concept that there is no morality in the world that he is living in. He also furthers the implication that she is a prostitute with the part of the stanza “Regard that woman who hesitates towards you in the light of the door, which opens on her like a grin”, implying that she is offering to practise her services with the main character, outside the place where she partakes in her profession, where she is always welcome, reinforced by the simile “opens on her like a grin”, as a grin is often seen as inviting, warm and comforting. This is significant as it adds to the sense of that those who cannot afford it do what they need to do, in this case, partaking in prostitution, as prostitutes aren’t often seen as being wealthy. The fact that she is working as a prostitute furthers that there is no morality within the