Question: Part A: Analyze the social and historical context of a particular poem Poem: T. S. Eliot‚ ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The context of any given text whether poetry‚ novels or a movie is always integral to its understanding. Social and historical context of not only the given text‚ but the writer’s context and reader’s context play an important role in the interpretation and understanding of the major ideas‚ issues‚ values and beliefs within the text. T.S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Love is a word that can be described in many ways. In the song “Toxic” by Britney Spears‚ poison is defined as love‚ an addiction that one cannot escape. When one is in love‚ one is usually in a state in which they are oblivious of all their exterior surroundings and can only focus on one thing: the person they love. In fact‚ that love develops into an addiction. That is where I believe the problem lies. Adolescents and young adults throw their lives away in the early stages of their lives because
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The Song of Songs vs. Lady Antebellum’s “Our Kind of Love” The excerpts from The Bedford Anthology of World Literature entitled The Song of Songs can correlate to the contemporary love song “Our Kind of Love” sang by the notorious‚ award-winning country music group Lady Antebellum. Besides the fact that these two works were written under antithetical circumstances and during distinctly different time periods‚ they both share many of the same attributes. Both of these works closely examine the word
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock “A reader’s response to a text is influenced by that responder’s social‚ cultural and historical context” Choosing one of T.S Eliot’s poems set for study‚ consider to what extent your personal response to your chosen poem has been shaped by the enduring power of its intellectual and artistic qualities. (Quote) “There will be time‚ there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;” Good morning /Afternoon Ms and fellow classmates. A
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T. S. Eliot uses irony and symbolism to capture the reader’s attention in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The poem has a dramatic discourse. The percipience of life’s emptiness is the main theme of the poem. Eliot exhorts the spiritual decomposition by exploring a type of life in death. T. S. Eliot‚ who in the Clark Lectures notes‚ "Real Irony is an expression of suffering"(Lobb‚ 53)‚ uses irony and symbolism throughout the poem to exemplify the suffering of J. Alfred Prufrock who believes
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Song Analysis: Same Love – Macklemore “What’s unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.” Alex Sanchez provides a perfect quote for the opening of this paper. Macklemore’s song and Sanchez’s quote fit hand in hand without flaw. Thus‚ this song is basically trying to make a statement to all people that discrimination against homosexuality is truly sickening. It doesn’t matter what religion you are or what belief you might have;
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mental health and/or intoxicating influences that may contribute to such antisocial behaviour. To understand and determine whether or not murderers are mad or just bad‚ the defining terms of “mental illness” and “evil” are imperative. The psychological definition of mental illness is “any of various disorders in which a person ’s thoughts‚ emotions‚ or behaviour are so abnormal as to cause suffering to himself‚ herself‚ or other people” (Oxford dictionary. 2012) and on the other hand evil
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Mad Hatters The term “mad hatters” comes from the nineteenth century‚ when hat designers made hats out of felt. The reason there was mercurious nitrate in the hats was because they had to use mercury to cure to felt. The mad hatters were mainly located in France. The hats the mad hatters made were 6 ½ to 8 inches in height. For example if your head was 22 inches in circumference your hat size would be 6 7/8 inches. On a lot of hats there was a symbol saying 10/6. Some people say
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Throughout the song “The Love Club” by Lorde‚ she manages to expresses a bitter and satirical tone using DIDLES. The song depicts her joining a clique of sorts‚ in order to achieve freedom. Ironically‚ by joining this group‚ the author ends up losing her freedom and severing ties with the people she loves. The writer selects words such as “choking” and “wicked” to emphasize the the regret and contempt associated with her experience. Such words invoke feelings of empathy in the readers‚ contributing
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ is a dramatic monologue in which the speaker recalls his insecurities in dealing with the opposite sex and the choices he made in general in his life. He wonders if he should have done things differently. Prufrock starts in a city-scape “Like a patient etherised upon a table;/ Let us go‚ through certain half-deserted streets” and ends on a beach “I shall wear white flannel trousers‚ and walk upon the beach
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