The poems, “Twilight Entered My Room” by Paudelis Prevelakis and “Prelude #1” by T.S. Eliot, share similarities, but they are also polar opposites in a way. Both tell about how wonderful twilight is using dense imagery, but they have different reasons for why it is great. Paudelis Prevelakis displays twilight as the last moment at the end of a great day and that it should be used to hold onto the passing day. T.S. Eliot disagrees and demonstrates how twilight is an escape from a cruddy day. Using personification as well as tactile imagery Paudelis gives twilight and sunlight a soft and kind personality. He has twilight caressing his feet which occurs for over one third of the poem. Eliot used auditory and olfactory imagery to describe how grey the day was. The auditory imagery he used were “The showers beat” (line 9) and “smells of steaks” (line 2). Rain crashing down onto walls, windows, and roofs makes a sound that tells people when they are in their house know that the day is grey without them having to look outside. The tone and mood of each poem is the same, but they are not the same as the other poem. The tone and mood of “Twilight Entered My Room” were positive while in “Prelude #1” they were negative. Both poems tell of how twilight is wonderful, but “Twilight Entered My Room” demonstrates it as the final part of a glorious day, while in “Prelude #1”, it is the relaxing end of a terrible day.
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