Marina‚ a poem by T.S. Eliot Posted on September 7‚ 2012 by Morgan Mussell One of best educational experiences I ever had was a class called “Yeats and Eliot” that I took as a college sophomore. I’ve been reading and rereading his work ever since. The name of this blog‚ “The first gate(s)” comes from the opening of Eliot’s long poem‚ “The Four Quartets‚” which matches the scope and depth of the work of any poet who ventures into ineffable realms. T.S. Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell‚ 1934. Public
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text. OR (ii) “The novel Wuthering Heights portrays a clash between two worlds represented by Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.” Discuss this view of the novel‚ supporting your answer by reference to the text. B SILAS MARNER – George Eliot (i) “The story of Silas Marner has the magic of a fairy-tale‚ which leaves the reader feeling good about people.” Write a response to this view of the novel‚ supporting your answer by reference to the text. OR (ii) “Godfrey Cass is not perfect‚ but
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Dictionary‚ Suffolk: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Conner‚ M. Dr. http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/period/metaphysicals.html [accessed February 2008]. Eliot‚ T. S. (1921) The Metaphysical Poets‚ The Norton Anthology Theory And Criticism‚ ed. Vincent B. Leitch‚ General Editor‚ (New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc‚ 2001). Johnson‚ S. (1783) From Lives of the English Poet‚ The Norton Anthology Theory And Criticism‚ ed. Vincent B. Leitch‚ General Editor‚ (New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc
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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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people: “Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent” (Eliot 8-9). Also‚ Prufrock talks about how women talk in a schoolgirl way‚ name dropping to sound smart and to socialize with other people. For example‚ in lines 13 and 14: “In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo” (Eliot 13-14)‚ Eliot uses trochee and true rhyme to imply the women’s shallowness and how they try to just look
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thrill in the whole poem. The first image created in the minds of the reader is that of a silent evening. The next is that of a patient etherised on a table. The Romantics had the notion that the “evening” is healing in nature. It nourishes the soul. Eliot breaks this notion by associating
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described in a beautiful sense‚ whereas Eliot has compared it to a ’patient etherised upon a table’. The language Eliot has used is one of a scientific and sterile nature. He may be trying to raise questions as to what we perceive as beautiful in our modern world‚ as people used to believe nature was the most beautiful sight on earth‚ whereas now people may perceive modern buildings or sports cars to be beautiful objects. Therefore‚ it would be reasonable to assume Eliot wants to return to the past‚ as he
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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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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 poet‚ Jules Laforgue. It is easy to draw similarities between Eliot’s Lovesong and all of Laforgue’s works as they both employ symbolist and modernist aspects in the way they describe everything through metaphor. Throughout the poem‚ Eliot uses many metaphors
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Passalacqua English 2 2/11/13 Prufrock Essay Insecurities are an inevitable part of life‚ everyone posses their own. Similarly‚ in the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S Eliot‚ the narrator dwells on his own insecurities when trying to find his place in life. Prufrock gives any excuse so he does not have fit in with high society. Eliot’s poem utilizes many repeated refrains‚ including: "there will be time"‚ "for I have known"
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