In Eliot's poetry there exists a vital relationship between two perspectives of vision, that of the persona, the speaking I in the poem, and that of the poem, which we shall refer to as the implied-author's voice). By perspective of vision we mean the particular consciousness and point of view of reality manifested by both poem and persona. The persona's prespective of vision is often the result of construing reality from a merely subjective, solipsistic and therefore limited point of view. The poem's or the implied-author's perspective of vision expresses a higher more objective consciousness which includes but transcends the persona's point of view, therefore implicitly commenting upon it. Eliot uses various techniques to convey the implied-author's perspective of vision. The title and the epigraph are among the most obvious and direct indications of his determinate purpose. Imagery and mythical symbolism are the more subtle means he uses, along with tone>