Night’ and ‘Preludes’. Eliot uses his fragmented childhood experiences and his thoughts on the squalor modern life to express the issues of meaningless life‚ isolation‚ the alienation and loneliness that the humans feel and lastly the damaged psyche of humanity. The issues of meaningless life is expressed through complex imagery and other language techniques like symbolism with death frequently linked to show that life was not anticipated and death was welcomed to society. Eliot also explored the modernist
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T.S. Eliot "The Fire Sermon" An analysis of the poem focusing on the elements of nature Joachim TRAUN 0004165 301/341 "It is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling" (T.S. Eliot on "The Waste Land") Table of contents page 1. Introduction 4 2. T.S. Eliot- a brief biography 4 3. The fire sermon 5 3.1 Structure 6 3.2 Intertextuality 6 3.3 Interpretation 8 3.3.1 Water 8 3.3.2 City 11 3.3.3 Fusion 13 4. Conclusion 14 Bibliography 1. Introduction There are not many poems
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Parents George Eliot is known as an exceptional writer now and of her time. George Eliot is not what most people think of her‚ when they hear the name George Eliot; most think that she is a he but the case is that George Eliot used the name as a pen name‚ because back in her time female writers were not even common or thought of really. George Eliot was born to Robert Evans and Christiana Pearson Evans. George Eliot’s father was a carpenter but later got a better job as an estate agent for Arbury
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with various different methods. Within Poem 1 and Poem 2 of “Preludes”‚ Eliot comments on the state of the setting‚ early 20th century London or Paris. Poem 1 is overflowing with adjectives with negative connotations such as “grimy”‚ “lonely”‚ “withered” and “burnt-out” in its description of the setting. With this description‚ combined with the dreary weather that can be heard throughout‚ “The showers beat/ on broken blinds”‚ Eliot has chosen to position his readers to feel uncomfortable regarding this
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T.S. Eliot’s poem "Journey of the Magi" interprets the wisemens’ trip to go see baby Jesus from a different perspective than most of us are used to hearing. The biblical version that is most popular doesn’t seem to mention anything bad or difficult about the journey that they made. The wisemen had a lot going against them to make their traveling terrible. It was in the winter‚ they rode on smelly camels‚ and the upset camel men were no comfort to the wandering Magi’s. In the first part of the poem
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“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”. Moreover ‚ post his wife’s death‚ in “Holy Sonnet X” Donne cements his assuredness of emotions toward death in verse. Conversely to Donne’s security in his feelings‚ in “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Eliot creates the persona of J.Alfred Prufrock who is evidently insecure in himself‚ with regard to both his appearance and his attitude towards particular milestones in his life. The first instance in “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” where the reader
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became desensitized to human emotion and existed in a state of limbo. Broken into only five stanzas‚ Eliot manages to capture the spirit of an age in “The Hollow Men.” Immediately in the epigraph‚ Eliot makes a direct reference (from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) to “Mistah Kurtz‚” a man who realizes the emptiness and futility of his life on his deathbed. By using contrasting diction and imagery‚ Eliot carries this sentiment of emptiness throughout the first stanza. The first stanza begins with “we
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How does T.S. Eliot convey the deteriorating state of humanity in his poems? In your response‚ include analysis of ‘The Hollow Men’ and ONE other Eliot poem you have studied. T.S. Eliot conveys the deteriorating state of humanity in the beginning of the twentieth century in the poems The Hollow Men and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Events‚ such as World War I‚ from the early twentieth century have influenced Eliot to express the superficiality and materialistic desire for wealth in modern
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Kunbargi english 99 In his poem Eliot paints the picture of an insecure man looking for his place in society. Prufrock has fallen in with the times‚ and places a lot of burden on social status and class to determine his individuality. He is ashamed of his personal appearance and looks towards social advancement as a way to assure himself and those around him of his value and establish who he is. Through out the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"‚ T.S. Eliot explores Prufrock’s conflict with
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In The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock‚ T.S. Elliot employs both pessimistic and mundane descriptions to portray the feeling of alienation and dysfunction facing many city dwellers at the beginning of the twentieth century. This style of writing was in direct opposition to the optimism and happy outlook popular to the previous Victorian Era. Modernism and the development of a city culture brought with it feelings of losing ones self‚ and many writers began to question the previous ideas of a society
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