Respond: What sights connect you to a larger past, as the burnt branches connect the speaker to the past in the poem?

Using a variety of phrases and clauses as modifiers, Eliot links diverse images. Among the structures that Eliot uses as **adjectival modifiers **are the following:
Prepositional Phrase: The burnt-out ends $\underline{\text{of smoky days}}$.... (Phrase modifies ends.)
Participial Phrase: Headpiece $\underline{\text{filled with straw}}$.... (Phrase modifies headpiece.)
Adjective Clause: ... hands / $\underline{\text{That are raising dingy shades}}$ ... (Clause modifies hands.)
Identify the adjectival modifiers in the given lines, and explain their effect:
"Preludes," lines $14$-$18$

What kind of place or scene would you like to remember later, "going among the years"? Why?

Respond: Do Churchill's words still have the power to stir a listener? Explain.

Respond: Have you ever had doubts or ambivalent feelings about a promise like those of the narrator? Explain.