Journey of the Magi :: Literary Analysis, T.S Eliot

Journey of the Magi is a poem by T.S Eliot extracted from the Ariel poems and published in 1930. It is a dramatic monologue of one of the Magi telling us close his expedition throughout paradise to find the Christian messiah Jesus Christ. Through the narrators dramatic monologue, Eliot treats the take careing of reality, usually distorted by the human mind. In the poem, the travelers witness something that changes their reality forever. How does this monologue illustrate the narrators envision of his become traveling through Palestine? In order to take the narrators perception of his past journey, I will throw overboard with the study of Eliots poem by a linear analysis.In his dramatic monologue, Eliot economic consumptions vivid understanding of the three Kings journey by the use of imagery. The different use of details guides the reader to use his imagination about a Biblical reference of more than 2,000 years ago. The narrator starts his level by describing the climat e challenges encountered A cold coming we had of it. He uses the verbalism of wintertime cold, winter, snow, combining visual and tactile senses for the reader to experience the difficulties faced by the three wise men. The narrator is generally truly negative about what he encounters during his trip. He uses pejorative vocabulary in order describes the season Just the worst time of the year. (v.2) abstruse and sharp weather (v.4) the very dead of winter (v.5). Not just the Three Kings seem to be tired and upset about their adventure, unless their camels as well. They were lying down in the melting snow (v.7) galled, sore-footed and obdurate. The role of this enumeration is to insist on the animals somatogenetic fatigue and also to show that both human and animals were affected by the weather conditions.In the second half of the first stanza, the narrator describes spend in the different cities he and the other kings traveled. By taking incubate of the seasons, the Magi in form the reader about the length of his Palestine journey. The transition from winter to summer setting is smoothly made by the verse thither were times we regretted. (v.8), which exemplifies the Magis envision of his experience. The challenges of the trip were so great and unannounced that most of the times tempted the three Kings to give up on their relegation in finding the Messiah. The Magi depicts palaces, terraces, sherbet (a central Asias sorbet) and silken girls to service the reader visualize the places he passed by.