Urban Alienation

How have three of the texts you have studied provided insight into the individuals relationships to the urban landscape painting? The three texts T. S Elites The Preludes rime, Jennifer Strauss Migrant charr on a Melbourne Tram poem and the short story The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, provide an insight into each individuals relationship with the urban landscape through with(predicate) the underlying motif of urban alienation. The writers explore the alienating effect of city life as people argon forced to capture and suppress their individual identity by conforming to societal expectations, as hearty as theIdea of examining the public nature of human despair and Isolation through their mental picture off soulless, disconnected and oppressive society. T. S Eliot shows the alienating and disconnection with the urban landscape which Is explored In The Preludes as people ar forced to suppress and obliterate their Individual Identity 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 share the Ideas of pessimism, disillusionment and futility.As a action to World War l, Eliot describes the metropolis as a place where people physically live, not emotionally live. Throughout the poem in that respect is use of enjambment to render the contemporary disorder and lack of coherence of peoples daily lives in the modern city. Alliteration is skillfully used creating strain on the imagery of gusty and grimy and the harshness of the rain being described as beat on broken blinds. The city itself is a fiction or reflection of peoples daily lives and inner psyches as they become consumed within the landscape.The second prelude deals tit the personal pain that is so well obscure which is metaphorically presented through the idea of a masquerade. This pain is shown to be an effect and common lifestyle of this broken city which is share d in a k furnished rooms. In Preludes three and four look at false pretences. Eliot uses the repetition of the conjunction and to further emphasis the drabness of routine and the endless cps of existence. There is a sense of prediction and pace through the times four and five and six o clock as if trapped in this mechanical routine.People are in the deceitful inform of certain certainties contained in monotonous activities like fingers of stuffing pipes. It ends with a sense of emptiness and a sense of searching. The Preludes addresses the need to hurt the chains or cycle of a personal fixation within the isolation as well as frustration of city life in order to create 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 Identity by conforming to societal expectations, where the Individual lacks feeling of longing and connectivity. The Pedestrian Is set AD 2053 In the dyspepsia future. Leonard concoct 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, lawless place where the protagonists name Is excessively very average and ordinary. There Is a recurring motif of the dead. People are metaphorically described as dead(a) 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 attached 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 directed 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 smile 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 ethnical and individual identity through the suppressive and conformity.Following the concept of the individual being psychologically set up, 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 foreign urban metropolis. The migrant woman is p ortrayed as one who hunches while being described as sweltering with twists in sweating hands. march on embodying a sense of discomfort is through the rash alliteration of s.We see the woman as being caught between two cultures she becomes consumed by the city and forlorn in foreign words and voices. The effective use of alliteration has a solemn tone which evokes a sense of hopelessness as they echo. Furthermore there is a sense of desperation to understand situation. The migrant woman has to break through the language barrier 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 perchance departed. This accumulates and creates an unsettled 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 munitio n and painted toenails. This synecdoche may act as a mean to create emphasis on the two contrasting cultures and expose the reader through the ruling of the feelings of displacement and complete alienation, which is what the migrant woman would be experiencing.Strauss makes an allusion to Greek hydrology through her reference to the story of Theses and the Minotaur. The migrant womans almost daunting and foreboding feat of making her navigation through an unknown culture alludes to Theses being sent and fed 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 respond to the ideas shown in the Migrant Woman on a Melbourne Tram in providing an insight to Jennifer Strauss soulless, disconnected and oppressive rel ationship 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.