"Gerontion" is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920. The work relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic‚ or elderly man‚ through a dramatic monologue which describes Europe after World War I through the eyes of a man who has lived the majority of his life in the 19th Century.[1] Eliot considered using this already published poem as a preface to The Waste Land‚ but decided to keep it as an independent poem.[2] Along with The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste
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Alfred Prufrock‚” Eliot represents age and time through parallelism and situational irony to show that one must not squander his opportunities in life. Parallelism is prevalent throughout the poem and is used to present age in a nagging‚ incessant way. The phrase “there will
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Eliot writes of culture as "the way of life of a particular people living together in one place. That culture is made visible in their arts‚ in their social system‚ in their habits and customs‚ in their religion.(Milner‚ A (1994) Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction. London: UCC Press.) A culture‚ then according to Eliot is one which is shared in common by a whole people‚ although he believed it was not shared equally between the people. Eliot divided the people into two groups‚ the elite
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Curtis Jones Mrs. Bacon English 2326 8 March 2013 Poetry Analysis for the “Journey of the Magi’ T.S. Eliot was born on September 26‚ 1888 in a small town in Massachusetts. He was the youngest of seven children. Eliot was educated at Smith’s Academy in St. Louis and Milton Academy in Massachusetts. He later went to college at Harvard University where he became an editor for the Harvard Advocate which published many of his poems. This lead to his first publication‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred
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could be present and the way the images‚ fragments and memorable phrases build a portrait of the character. This poem can be read in several ways and have different meanings. The following analysis is focused on Prufrock the character‚ as opposed to Eliot the Poet. It is very important to take into consideration the era in which this poem was published‚ as at that time there was nothing similar to this poem. The way the author portrays an inner monologue‚ conscious of his surroundings‚ is what later
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Prufrock is presented as ‘an awkward and emasculated character’. To what extent do the metaphors in ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ create this view of the character? TS Eliot’s 20th Century poem ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ is widely seen as a modernist work that Eliot employs to make the reader of the poem actually create their own opinion of what is actually meant by the poem. The modernist movement happened mainly in the late 19th to early 20th Century and started with the French
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Ezra Pound and TS Eliot were both expatriate Americans who were part of the early Modernist movement in the beginning of the twentieth century. The two men were great friends during this time and Pound took Eliot under his wing‚ publishing and promoting his work and introducing him to all the right people. In their early work as they are just discovering and honing their talents the idea of culture and identity was of huge importance to them both. They had both left America to travel and experience
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The 1900s was a period of increasing industrialization of which society saw a growing sense of disillusionment. TS Eliot conveys aspects of modernism through his poems Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock and Rhapsody on a Windy Night‚ such as the increasing alienation of society‚ the loss of identity and the dismissal of functional traditional conventions. Eliot achieves this through the prevalent themes of time and memory‚ and the depiction of the urban environment. The isolation of individuals within
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