Modernism is a terminology given by historians to the literary movement around the end of the 19th century. It is an artistic movement whose aim is to produce art in different traditional forms. His literary purpose is to criticize the problems of their world. They use specific characteristics implicitly and explicitly; implicitly to send messages to others or to educated people with authority or explicitly to influence public opinions. “We're talking about two chronologies. One is the sequence of lyrics; the other is the sequence of intellectual movements. Like feminism or Marxism changing the way we read texts." (Armstrong). One of the most influential modernist writers is Thomas Stearns Eliot. His one of many poems Preludes is a direct and indirect criticism of his society. I will discuss in the following paragraphs how structuralism, Marxism, and feminism are found in the poem and how the historical context of the poem can add to a greater understanding of modernism. Firstly, in the Preludes written by TS Eliot, structuralism can be easily identified as a main feature of modernism. First, the verses have different lengths. “Six o'clock” (Eliot 9) consists of only two words, the sentence structure is incomplete, and the rest of the verses consist of three to eight words. Secondly, the parts are not equally divided either equally in the number of stanzas or equally in the number of lines. For example, the first part consists of two verses, the second part of two verses, the third part of one verse and the fourth part of three verses. The first verse is made up of twelve verses, the second verse is made up of one verse, the third and fourth are made up of five verses. The fifth verse is from the fifth te...... half of the sheet......s, 1996”. Ebscohost.com. ELL Reference Center.15 December 2011Graham Martin. “Poetic” literature in the modern world. The Open University, 2005 Hanlon, Tina. “Preludes”. ebscohost.com.EBSCO Information Services. December 14, 2011Olney, James and Harold Bloom. “Four quartets: “folded into a single party”.” ebscohost.com. 20050304. EBSCO Information Services. December 15th 2011