Rhapsody on a Windy Night

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"Rhapsody on a Windy Night" is a modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that presents a fragmented, nightmarish urban landscape reflecting themes of alienation and psychological disintegration.

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Rhapsody on a Windy Night canonical 4
Rhapsody of a Windy Night 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poem
author T. S. Eliot
collectionPublicationYear 1917
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationYear 1915
firstPublishedAs Rhapsody of a Windy Night
firstPublishedIn Blast
linked to: The Blast
form lyric poem
genre modernist poetry
hasMeter irregular meter
imagery cat
doorstep
moon
nightmarish urban landscape
prostitute
street lamps
twisted streets
includedInCollection Prufrock and Other Observations
language English
laterTitle Rhapsody on a Windy Night
literaryMovement Modernism
literaryPeriod early 20th century
motif light and darkness
memory
time
narrativePerspective first-person speaker
periodOfComposition early 1910s
publisherOfFirstCollection The Egoist Press
relatedWorkByAuthor Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
setting unnamed city
urban street at night
style fragmented imagery
free verse
stream-of-consciousness elements
theme alienation
decay and corruption
disillusionment
memory and fragmentation
psychological disintegration
urban isolation
timeFrame midnight to four o’clock in the morning
tone bleak
disorienting
hallucinatory
usesDevice imagism-influenced description
personification of street lamps
symbolism

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Prufrock and Other Observations containsPoem Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Portrait of a Lady relatedWorkBySameAuthor Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Rhapsody on a Windy Night firstPublishedAs Rhapsody of a Windy Night
linked to: Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Rhapsody on a Windy Night laterTitle Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window relatedWorkByAuthor Rhapsody on a Windy Night