industrial society and challenging traditional cultural customs. T.S Eliot has been one of the most daring innovators of twentieth-century poetry‚ and believed that poetry should aim at a representation of the complexities of modern civilization. His poem ‘Preludes’ looks at the decay of the city as a result of ritual‚ futility and the effects of technological advancement through Eliot’s harsh description of the city and its people. Eliot effectively distinguishes his thoughts of the modernist era‚ instantly
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How Far Does T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Present a Realistic Picture of London After the First World War? Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land is unarguably a poem about the decline of western civilization in general. It is for this reason that the reader would not expect to find many specific references to time and place. Surprisingly‚ however‚ there are a large number of particular references to London – though‚ interestingly‚ only one to the recently-concluded World War One: the demobilisation
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me assist you by revealing my feelings and analysis on TS Eliot’s issues and concerns. Since I’ve only studied ’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’‚ ’Portrait of a Lady’‚ ’Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ’Preludes’‚ I’ll be relating my explanation to those poems. The human conditions that Eliot represents are trivial‚ struggle‚ pessimism‚ depersonalisation‚ despair and desolation. His views of women are misogynistic and being involved in sordid activities. Eliot’s poems deal with the psychological
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When she was 13‚ in 1949‚ she and her sister were sent to a Mount School‚ a Quaker boarding school in York. She did not like boarding school‚ citing her need to be alone and her difficulty in making friends. So far she was not a forthcoming child. A. S. Byatt declares that she felt “panic” about the outside world‚ and says that she didn’t speak to anyone willingly until she became about sixteen. “I had a strong sense of not knowing how to behave socially‚ handed down from my mother’s anxiety about
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Memory and Desire both influences an individual’s reaction to events both past and present‚ therefore positioning one’s expectation of the future Both Memory and desire influence an individual’s response to the nature of events of the past and the present. Like the ebb and flow of the waves seen in 30 Years in the Wilderness Memories also comes back and forth in one’s mind. Both memory and desire shape and inform our human reactions. Memories connect individuals with the past and develop them
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Sep/30/2014 The Pitiful Prufrock of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S Elliot is the lifetime of an old age man remembers‚ which consist of his past failures. Then‚ he puts them into the context of his meaningless life to try to comprehend the significance and compensate for his loneliness. Through Eliot ’s rich imagery and excellent use of poetic language‚ Prufrock ’s explanation of his memories‚ his experiences and most importantly‚ his feelings
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‘[In Elliot] the disembodied ‘I’ glides in and out of stolen texts.’ (Maud Ellmann) How does Eliot use intertextuality to ask questions about identity‚ authenticity and authority The question of Identity‚ authenticity and authority transcend throughout T. S. Eliot’s poetry. A master of modernist poetry‚ Eliot manages to highlight the dramatic changes of culture and society in the early 20th century through employing crippling imagery and an astounding catalogue of intertextual links‚ questioning
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isolation is presented and explored by Sebastian Faulks and T.S Eliot in ‘Engleby’ and ‘Selected Poems’. Throughout both ‘Engleby’ and ‘Selected Poems’ there is a prevailing sense of ‘apprehension of the tenuousness of human existence’ which is evident in the protagonists’ confining inability to communicate with the world around them‚ as seen in Prufrock’s agonised call‚ ‘so how should I presume?’. ‘The Wasteland’ was written by Eliot to ‘address the fragmentation and alienation characteristic of
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Content Summary The book‚ The Great Divorce‚ was written in 1945 by C.S. Lewis. Lewis wrote the book as a response to William Blake’s book‚ Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In many ways‚ it is a refutation of Blake’s book; there is no marriage of heaven and hell. The book begins in a sad‚ dark‚ desolate place. The reader is led to believe that this place is hell. The narrator takes the reader throughout the streets of this peculiar place. Eventually‚ he stumbles upon a bus station‚ along with many other
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The Four Quartets Eliot finds an interesting aspect of time and eternity as displayed in this poem. There are philosophical investigations made in the poem within the twentieth century. The poem highlights the efforts of scientists in the bid to comprehend time (Kramer 10). This begins from Einstein’s explanation of quantum mechanics that enabled artists and scientists to come up with numerous ideologies regarding time. Postmodernists hold the view that the value of timelessness on eternity results
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