in advance of committing a crime. This correlates with Prufrock’s need to know the answer to the question he wants to ask as a condition of asking it. Or perhaps in order for Prufrock to be able to ask the question he would have to not care what the answer would be; in that case‚ the answer wouldn’t matter. Lines 7-9 Prufrock‚ the persona of the poem‚ issues his invitation to an unspecified “you” to go with him to an as yet unspecified place. To establish when they will be going‚ he introduces the
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Prufrock and Modernism Modernist literature is the representation of the societal crises and disorientation which was resultant of the burgeoning industrialisation and mechanisation of society in the 20th century. This instigated an evolution of thought which challenged the preconceived notions and boundaries enforced by society and gave rise to new perceptions in relation to the world. Modernism is marked by experimentation‚ and in particular the manipulation of form. This is evident in T.S Eliot’s
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(Dante 61-66). This is an epigraph to the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. These lines are from Dante’s Inferno which is about Dante going to Hell and asking a question to a false counselor‚ Guido da Montefeltro. The false counselor decides to answer Dante’s question because the answer will be kept in Hell with Dante. This epigraph makes an allusion to what happens in the poem‚ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock‚ the speaker of this poem‚ wants to ask fundamental questions of people;
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Tiffany Li Ms. Hall ENG 4U1 December 13th‚ 2010 A Life Without Love‚ is No Life at All As the flawed in protagonists of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and T.S Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ both Hamlet and Prufrock live in a times of disharmony. Feelings of passion are controlled by realistic tendencies and neither allows sensitivity to rule their order. This underlying journey or quest for female contact causes both characters to live meaningless lives eventually leading to harsh
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and concepts. T.S Eliot is considered as one of the twentieth century’s major poets; his poem ‘the love song of j. Alfred Prufrock’ has gone down as one of the major works of the Modernist movement. ‘Prufrock’ is a dramatic monologue that follows a man striving for meaning in a suddenly industrial modern road‚ typical themes of modernism. The isolation and displacement Prufrock exemplifies throughout the poem reflects author Eliot’s own struggles in the new modern society. Eliot through his poems
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Beowulf and Ulysses‚ they express the journeys of two epic heroes. Beowulf and Ulysses share similarities‚ but have different perspectives on how they travel and fight. The two rulers are very loyal to their kingdom and their subjects. Beowulf quickly “accused himself of breaking God’s law” after the dragon had incinerated Geatland (708-709). He considers himself and his citizens as an entire entity. If a person causes fault to his rule‚ then everyone‚ including himself is blamed. Ulysses invites
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Eliot’s Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the story of a single character‚ a timid‚ middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to himself. The epigraph‚ a dramatic speech taken from Dante’s "Inferno‚" provides a key to Prufrock’s nature. Like Dante’s character Prufrock is in "hell‚" in this case a hell of his own feelings. He is both the "you and I" of line one‚ pacing the city’s grimy streets on his lonely
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How would you describe the speaker’s tone in "Ulysses"? In Ulysses‚ written by Alfred Lord Tennyson‚ is a poem giving courage and hope. In this poem‚ the desire of Tennyson to reach out further more than he can‚ and to get away from the same everyday life are expressed. The tone of the speaker in Ulysses is not soothing but forcing for the hope. This can be seen from the end of the poem‚ “Come‚ my friends‚/ ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world./Push off‚ and sitting wll in order smite” (lines
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epic poem The Odyssey is very different emotionally than the same character described by Alfred Lord Tennyson (under a different name) in his poem Ulysses. Tennyson’s Ulysses is melancholy about the state of his home and wishes to return to the open sea‚ while Homer’s Odysseus is happy to return home after twenty long years on the seas. Tennyson’s Ulysses describes "how dull it is to pause‚ to make an end" and how he wishes for excitement‚ adventure‚ and "new things." Homer describes Odysseus as longing
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The stage of apotheosis emphasizes the hero reaching an epiphany. The protagonist gains the utmost knowledge about the rigorous journey. For example‚ Prufrock fears women because they can have his head “brought upon a platter” (Eliot 82). The quote alludes to the beheading of St. John the Baptist‚ an oil painting by Caravaggio in 1608. The biblical allusion tells the story of Herod‚ the tetrarch‚ imprisoning John the Baptist for divorcing his wife and uptaking his brother’s wife‚ Herodia. Furthermore
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