2 Body Paragraphs- Journey of the Magi

Journey of the Magi- T. S Eliot Two body paragraphs using PEEAL, including 2/3 good theoretical accounts This poem, Journey of the magi by T. S Eliot explores the idea that a journey can involve obstacles and challenges. The magi are faced with difficulties, hardships and discomforts such as the hostility from the natural solid ground and humans and sleep deprivation. In the kickoff stanza the line The ways deep and the weather sharp an inverted sentence structure is used to put emphasis on the sufferings and difficulties of the journey.Along with this line in the off inured stanza a list of complaints are written, Then the camel men cursing and plain/ and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,/ and the night-fires going out, and the lack of their shelters, and the cities hostile and the towns hostile/ and the villages dirty, and charging high prices. the use of listing in this stanza conveys to the lecturer the adversities faced by the animals, men and the magi. Listing creates a accumulative effect, causing the impact and sense of the complications to increase as the list goes on.An assumption about journeys that can be made from this poem is also that physical journeys lead to personal increase or altered perspectives. The magi once they have witnessed the birth of Jesus cannot find oneself anything in the same light anymore. The line in the last stanza I should be glad of other death suggests the persona almost looks frontwards to his eventual death now that he understands that there is life subsequently death. It could also mean that the persona yearns for another renewal or another moment of new consciousness. In the last stanza the line but set down/This set down.This is an enjambment that places emphasis on the new understanding that the magi have achieved. It is also a monosyllabic line, which arrests the pace of the poem and forces the reader to stop and pay attention to the message of the persona. A great example showing t he change of perspective by the magi would be at the termination of stanza 3, the word choice of these kingdoms and alien adds to the magis feelings of separation from the old world order and palaces in stanza 1 compared to the choice of words in stanza 3 places illustrates the idea of a new perception and outlook on life.