TS Eliot's 'The Love Song'
English Journey Essay
Journeys lead to greater understanding. They can be physical, inner or imaginative and can allow one to gain self-awareness, discover their flaws and weaknesses as well as gain spiritual enlightenment. That journeys can lead to greater understanding can be seen in TS Eliot’s poem The Love Song, Philip Otto Rouge artwork Dawn, Harwood’s poem In the Park and Victor Kellesher’s book cover Ivory trail.
Journeys lead to greater understanding. This can be seen in The Love Song… where Prufrock gains self-awareness of his isolated and insignificant status. He experienced both a physical and imaginative journey. Prufrock is a man who is a mid aged man, single and a pessimist. He isolates himself and is afraid of making …show more content…
With harsh words such as “tug” it resembles her being pulled down and “aimless patterns” represents her life having no direction or goal in which she can follow. The use of past tense in the word “loved” shows she is not experiencing joyful emotions now, but instead “-“ the anxiousness or shock on her reflection in her current situation. “too late” the enjambment forces her to go through an inner journey unwillingly. After meeting the person she has once loved and a superficial conversation starts, she begins to realise the difference between them. Being self-conscious of herself the phrase “but for the grace of God” has been inverted from a normal situation to a negative one. And “…” emphasises the shock going through her head, acting as a harsh stimulus of her realisation to life. With the description of “flickering light” in line 9, symbolising the fading of hope to retain her past life. The superficial conversation about the children, which have taken over her life is in a hopeful tone as if it was a self-reassurance about her life. Though the last imagery given of her journey is her nursing her baby, a parody of Mother Mary holding baby Jesus. She is stripped of her identity and emotions in her inner journey as “They have eaten me alive”. Through her journey the protagonist in In the Park comes to greater understanding of her situation and position in life after going through her physical and inner
Journeys lead to greater understanding. They can be physical, inner or imaginative and can allow one to gain self-awareness, discover their flaws and weaknesses as well as gain spiritual enlightenment. That journeys can lead to greater understanding can be seen in TS Eliot’s poem The Love Song, Philip Otto Rouge artwork Dawn, Harwood’s poem In the Park and Victor Kellesher’s book cover Ivory trail.
Journeys lead to greater understanding. This can be seen in The Love Song… where Prufrock gains self-awareness of his isolated and insignificant status. He experienced both a physical and imaginative journey. Prufrock is a man who is a mid aged man, single and a pessimist. He isolates himself and is afraid of making …show more content…
With harsh words such as “tug” it resembles her being pulled down and “aimless patterns” represents her life having no direction or goal in which she can follow. The use of past tense in the word “loved” shows she is not experiencing joyful emotions now, but instead “-“ the anxiousness or shock on her reflection in her current situation. “too late” the enjambment forces her to go through an inner journey unwillingly. After meeting the person she has once loved and a superficial conversation starts, she begins to realise the difference between them. Being self-conscious of herself the phrase “but for the grace of God” has been inverted from a normal situation to a negative one. And “…” emphasises the shock going through her head, acting as a harsh stimulus of her realisation to life. With the description of “flickering light” in line 9, symbolising the fading of hope to retain her past life. The superficial conversation about the children, which have taken over her life is in a hopeful tone as if it was a self-reassurance about her life. Though the last imagery given of her journey is her nursing her baby, a parody of Mother Mary holding baby Jesus. She is stripped of her identity and emotions in her inner journey as “They have eaten me alive”. Through her journey the protagonist in In the Park comes to greater understanding of her situation and position in life after going through her physical and inner