“Journey of the Magi” is a poem by TS Eliot extracted from the poems of Ariel and published in 1930. It is a dramatic monologue of one of the Magi who tells us of his expedition throughout Palestine to find the Christian messiah: Jesus Christ. Through the narrator's dramatic monologue, Eliot deals with the vision of reality, usually distorted by the human mind. In the poem the travelers witness something that changes their reality forever. How does this monologue illustrate the narrator's view of his experience traveling through Palestine? To analyze the narrator's perception of his past journey, I will precede the study of Eliot's poetry with a linear analysis. In his dramatic monologue, Eliot uses a vivid understanding of the journey of the three kings through the use of imagery. The different use of details guides the reader to use his imagination on a biblical reference from more than 2,000 years ago. The narrator begins his story by describing the climate challenges encountered: “A cold we had.” He uses the diction of winter: “cold, winter, snow,” combining the visual and tactile senses so that the reader can experience the difficulties faced by the three wise men. The narrator is generally very negative about what he encounters on his journey. He uses pejorative vocabulary to describe the season: “Just the worst time of the year.” (v.2) “deep and sharp time” (v.4) “in the dead of winter” (v.5). Not only do the Three Kings look tired and distraught from their adventure, but so do their camels. They were “lying in the melting snow” (v.7) “punctured, sore and unresponsive.” The role of this enumeration is to insist on the physical fatigue of the animal and also to show that both humans and animals were affected by weather conditions. In the second half of the first stanza, the narrator describes the summer in the different cities he and the other kings traveled. Following the rhythm of the seasons, the Magi inform the reader about the duration of his journey to Palestine. The transition from the winter to the summer setting is made easy by the verse: “There were times when we repented.” (v.8), which exemplifies the Magi's view of his experience. The challenges of the journey were so great and unexpected that most of the time they tempted the three Kings to give up on their mission to find the Messiah. The Magi depict palaces, terraces, sorbets (a Central Asian sherbet), and silk girls to help the reader visualize the places he has passed.