became desensitized to human emotion and existed in a state of limbo. Broken into only five stanzas‚ Eliot manages to capture the spirit of an age in “The Hollow Men.” Immediately in the epigraph‚ Eliot makes a direct reference (from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) to “Mistah Kurtz‚” a man who realizes the emptiness and futility of his life on his deathbed. By using contrasting diction and imagery‚ Eliot carries this sentiment of emptiness throughout the first stanza. The first stanza begins with “we
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How does T.S. Eliot convey the deteriorating state of humanity in his poems? In your response‚ include analysis of ‘The Hollow Men’ and ONE other Eliot poem you have studied. T.S. Eliot conveys the deteriorating state of humanity in the beginning of the twentieth century in the poems The Hollow Men and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Events‚ such as World War I‚ from the early twentieth century have influenced Eliot to express the superficiality and materialistic desire for wealth in modern
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was born September 26th‚ 1888 during what can be called an age of transition and could quite possibly be named one of the best poets of the 19th century. He wrote many poems of memories of childhood and bitter visions of various times in his life. Later in life‚ his craving for writing theatrical dramas took over. His most famous and celebrated work is the long and perplexing poem‚ The Waste Land‚ which took him nearly a year to finish. T.S. Eliot had a life full of conflict
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Kunbargi english 99 In his poem Eliot paints the picture of an insecure man looking for his place in society. Prufrock has fallen in with the times‚ and places a lot of burden on social status and class to determine his individuality. He is ashamed of his personal appearance and looks towards social advancement as a way to assure himself and those around him of his value and establish who he is. Through out the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"‚ T.S. Eliot explores Prufrock’s conflict with
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In The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock‚ T.S. Elliot employs both pessimistic and mundane descriptions to portray the feeling of alienation and dysfunction facing many city dwellers at the beginning of the twentieth century. This style of writing was in direct opposition to the optimism and happy outlook popular to the previous Victorian Era. Modernism and the development of a city culture brought with it feelings of losing ones self‚ and many writers began to question the previous ideas of a society
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Thomas Stearns Eliot & Why He Writes Poetry 6 The Poem That Made His Name 8 Understanding Poetry 9 The Qualities of Poetry 10 Poetry 12 Line by Line Analysis of “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” 14 The Speaker 24 Setting 25 Characters 26 Themes 27 CHAPTER III: CONCLUSION Conclusion Recommendation REFERENCES RESEARCH OUTLINE Thesis Statement: Thorough Analysis of the poem; The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot‚ by studying
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Priscilla Grunauer Period 3 3-27-07 3. The evening in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is compared with “a patient etherized upon a table‚” the “evening is spread out against the sky.” T.S. Eliot has compared his lonely night to a patient who is under an anesthetic‚ completely numb to all that surrounds him. “The evening is spread out against the sky‚” gives a very distinct image lending itself to another image; a patient spread upon an operating table completely subdued. 7. The obvious
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In the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot‚ the main character‚ J. Alfred Prufrock is seen as an anti-hero. His character and identity comes through strongly in the poem as a shy and introverted man who is socially inept‚ extremely self conscious‚ lacking in self confidence and wallowing in self-pity‚ yet desiring for people to notice him. The composer shows this through his use of allusions‚ powerful imagery to create vignettes of Prufrock’s life and the form of the poem as
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“The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’ clock. The burnt –out ends of smoky days.” A poem is a complete expressive of the mood of the poet‚ and Thomas Stearns Eliot is of no exception to it‚ when he is certainly throughout his poem is deeply in a mood of gloom and despair‚ as far as society is concerned. He is considered to be one of the most distinguished poets of the twentieth century who brought a very modern touch to his poetry with plenty of symbolism
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T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland‚ whilst being laden with rich cultural references and allusions‚ is a confronting representation of re-establishment and rejuvenation across the entirety of a European post-war society. Eliot addresses the cyclical nature of life and death‚ encompassed by carefully crafted language and structure designed to disorientate the reader. The reader is offered an interpretation of human behaviour which is akin to all beings across the cohort of society‚ regardless of ethnicity
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