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The Infinitely Suffering Thing： ———T. S. Eliot’s “Preludes” 　　Abstract： this article explicates how Eliot’s subjects in his “Preludes” struggle between the loss of language in the modern reality and the impossibility to attain the idealistic state of love and meaning. The subject in these short poems， in the Poet’s modernistic depiction， turns out to be the failed version of the Renaissance man or the one that loses spirituality in the eyes of the Romantics， thus envisaging the doomed state of modern humanity at the turn of the twentieth century. 　　Key Words： symbolic；discourse；Renaissance；Romantics， history 　　Readers of Eliot will inevitably witness the disability of the Word within the word in “Preludes” and “Rhapsody.” Through history and space and every detail of human experience， displayed here are the masquerades of doomed souls who swarm through Boston， Paris， or London “like wading through time” （Gordon 26）. In the sense of discourse， J. C. C. Mays remarks that it is the impotency of symbolic language insufficient for the situation and that the signifier is never adequate for the signified （112）. So， in these poems， desire has lost its object and has been flowing on the surface of time and space， just to adopt a psychoanalytic view of language. Like the other Prufrockian poems， they stretch the soul of the subject in “the thousand sordid images” （CPP 23） in the present tense， permeating repetitive successions of scenes and things， smells and sounds， light and shadows. The impersonal view and voice produced from the vantage point of “ancient women” （Ditto） remind readers of the classical absentee （later personified in Tiresias or Gerontion） and expose Time and eternity in a language in pursuit of an understanding of things in general （Moody， “Four Quartets” 148）. The cut-in of pronouns and consciousness lays bare individual fancies and memories as particles of the nameless hordes of lost souls ready to be devoured by the depths of Dantean hell. 　　The firs