Urban Alienation

How piddle trinity of the texts you have studied provided keenness into the individuals races to the urban decorate? The common chord texts T. S Elites The Preludes poesy, Jennifer Strauss Migrant Woman on a Melbourne Tram poem and the short story The earthbound by Ray Bradbury, provide an insight into each individuals relationship with the urban landscape with the underlying subject of urban alienation. The writers explore the alienating effect of city life as people argon forced to suppress and continue their individual individuality by conformist to societal expectations, as well as theIdea of examining the prevalent character of human despair and Isolation with their depiction make soulless, undo and oppressive society. T. S Eliot shows the alienating and disconnection with the urban landscape which Is explored In The Preludes as people are forced to suppress and hide their Individual Iden white meaty by conforming to societal expectations wealth city life. Eliot who was a modernist poet, revolted against traditional literary forms and subjects. About the decay of modern salvation, he shared the Ideas of pessimism, disillusionment and futility.As a action to World War l, Eliot describes the metropolis as a step to the fore where people physically live, not emotionally live. Throughout the poem there is use of enjambment to render the contemporary disorder and lack of coherence of peoples occasional lives in the modern city. initial rhyme is skillfully used creating emphasis on the imagery of gusty and drab and the harshness of the rain being described as beat on broken maneuvers. The city itself is a metaphor or reflection of peoples daily lives and inner psyches as they become consumed within the landscape.The second prelude deals tit the individual(prenominal) pain that is so well hidden which is metaphorically presented through the idea of a masquerade. This pain is shown to be an effect and common life-style of this broken city which is shared in a thousand give rooms. In Preludes three and four look at false pretences. Eliot uses the repeat of the conjunction and to further emphasis the drabness of routine and the endless motorbike of existence. There is a horse reek of prediction and pace through the generation four and five and six o clock as if trapped in this mechanistic routine.People are in the deceitful inform of certain certainties contained in unglamorous activities like fingers of stuffing pipes. It ends with a sense of emptiness and a sense of searching. The Preludes addresses the need to break the chains or cycle of a personal fixation within the isolation as well as frustration of city life in order to take a shit a stronger relationship with the urban environment. Similarly, The Pedestrian explores alienating effects of city life as people are forced to suppress and hide their Individual indistinguishability by conforming to societal expectations, where the Individual lacks feeling o f longing and connectivity. The Pedestrian Is set AD 2053 In the dyspepsia future. Leonard Mean is the individual whoso Is at odds with his society as he who recognizes the world as soulless and. HIS world has no delve order and Is a futile, anarchic place where the protagonists name Is also very average and ordinary. There Is a fall out motif of the dead. People are metaphorically described as dampen and zombie-Like or associated with the negative connotation of grey phantoms living In a monotonous and emotionless world.People are trapped and locked inside tomb-like monotony abandoned with urban living as Leonard goes about his routine he says Whats up tonight on Channel 4, Channel 7 and Channel 9? Due to advances in technology, the city dwellers ability to think for themselves is lost as they become brainwashed and confined to their living rooms watching television, into a dehumidified state. The onomatopoeia and emotive terms Whispering Murmurs are both associated with spying or secrets. This suggests Leonard is not conforming to the laws of his society.The harshness and sterility of the robots metallic voice idiotically repeats the questions direct to Leonard, asking Walking where? For what? As well the inability to understand his profession shows an emotionless and artificial world taken over by ever developing technology. This is Juxtaposed between Lemonades warmth and humor where he replies with a smiling nobody wanted me. Similarly with T. S Elites The Preludes, in The Pedestrian there are feelings of isolation and being misunderstood by the changing urban society where the world is isolating in cultural and individual identicalness through the suppressive and conformity.Following the concept of the individual being psychologically chain, the Migrant Woman on a Melbourne Tram reflects Jennifer Strauss relationship with the urban landscape examined through the portrayal of an illegal alien, where she experiences displacement and anonymity in a f oreign urban metropolis. The migrant woman is portrayed as one who hunches plot of land being described as sweltering with twists in sweating hands. Further embodying a sense of discomfort is through the anthesis alliteration of s.We see the woman as being caught between cardinal cultures she becomes consumed by the city and forlorn in foreign words and voices. The useful use of alliteration has a solemn tone which evokes a sense of hopelessness as they echo. Furthermore there is a sense of hopelessness to understand situation. The migrant woman has to break through the language hindrance to overcome a loss and lack of cultural identity. There is a threatening and uneasy tone established through the repetition of impossibly black Luminosity obscure Luminosity dark Possibly departed. This accumulates and creates an changeable atmosphere while reflecting the individuals confusion and isolation. This also relates to the womens attire, standing out while being Juxtaposed with the sexualities nature of the impudence of summer thighs/long munition and painted toenails. This synecdoche may act as a mean to create emphasis on the two contrasting cultures and expose the reader through the notion of the feelings of displacement and complete alienation, which is what the migrant woman would be experiencing.Strauss makes an allusion to classical hydrology through her reference to the story of Theses and the Minotaur. The migrant womans almost daunting and foreboding feat of do her navigation through an unknown culture alludes to Theses being sent and feed to the Minotaur. The migrant woman is sacrificing herself to this newfound culture and leaving behind her past. The blind beast may perhaps also signify the industrialized and modern-aged city, devouring or consuming the newly arrived immigrants which correlates with the metaphor of eating up men.The Preludes and The Pedestrian move to the ideas shown in the Migrant Woman on a Melbourne Tram in providing an i nsight to Jennifer Strauss soulless, disconnected and oppressive relationship with the urban landscape. In the three texts, the readers are provided underlying motif of urban alienation. The ideas explored are when people are forced to suppress and hide their individual identity by conforming to societal expectations, as well as the idea of examining the universal nature of human despair and isolation through their depiction of a soulless, disconnected and oppressive society.