The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock is a long and challenging poem that seems rather disjointed and confusing upon first reading. It seems as though us readers will never understand the deeper meaning of the poem without getting inside Eliot’s head and seeing his thought process for ourselves. However‚ through digging deeper and examining the piece closer we can find that this is meant to be an ironic and tragic tale of a man who feels isolated and incapable of decisive action. It is ironically called
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Dramatic Monologues: According to M.H. Abrahms‚ dramatic monologue is a poetic form‚ "a lengthy speech by a single person"‚ addressing a silent listener‚ intended to convey his or her inner thoughts and emotions. It can be rewritten in jargonised terms as ’a cross or hybrid of the genres of drama and lyric’. A lyric poem is ‘any fairly short poem‚ consisting of the utterance by a single speaker‚ who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception‚ thought‚ and feeling’. Though
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THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE IN TENNYSON’S ULYSSES The greatest Victorian contribution to poetry is certainly the form of the dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is defined by various critics as a type of poem in which a single speaker‚ a persona‚ “utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem‚ in a specific situation at a critical moment.” This speaker addresses and interacts with one or more other people. They are silent but usually identifiable listeners in whose presence the speaker reveals
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THE LOVE SONG OF J.ALFRED PRUFROC Often called the first Modernist poem‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was published in the prestigious American journal Poetry in June 1915. About the Poem: The poem centers on the feelings and thoughts of the eponymous speaker (the somewhat neurotic Prufrock) as he walks through the streets of London route to meet a woman for tea. He is considering a question (perhaps‚ broadly‚ the meaning of life‚ or‚ more narrowly‚ a proposal of marriage). Far more than
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crowned hallways with red and black stripes on the walls. With my head down‚ I make my way swiftly through the mass of people. I became more anxious‚ more on edge. While waiting in the lobby for my friends to arrive‚ the thoughts and eagerness to know what was in store for my freshman year began to overcrowd my mind. After waiting for a few minutes my friends arrive. We are all smiling and laughing‚ because we are finally in high school. “I hope everyone had a great summer‚” my friend Mary said. I went
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The Dramatic Monologue is a type of a lyric poem. It was developed in the Victorian period. Robert Browning is said to have perfected the Dramatic Monologue‚ with poems such as My Last Duchess‚ and Soliloquy of a Spanish Cloister. As its name states‚ it is a monologue‚ hence it is a speech uttered by a single person. In its fullest form‚ the dramatic monologue has three salient features Firstly‚ a single person who is patently not the poet‚ utters the speech that makes up the whole of a poem‚ in
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Response: In the context of your critical study‚ how does what you have listened to either support or challenge your interpretation of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Eliot’s poetry as a whole? There are several aspects of the university lecture on T. S Eliot’s poetry that support my personal interpretation of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ Rhapsody on a Windy Night and Eliot’s poetry in general. My interpretation of Prufrock‚ Rhapsody and Eliot’s poetry is that this medium of expression
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In this poem‚ T.S. Eliot shows the character‚ J. Alfred Prufrock‚ as someone who second guesses all of his decisions and is afraid to change because of his fear of being judged by other people. And indeed there will be time To wonder‚ “Do I dare?” and‚ “Do I dare?” Time to turn back and descend the stair‚ With a bald spot in the middle of my hair— (They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”) My morning coat‚ my collar mounting firmly to the chin‚ My necktie rich and modest‚ but
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Dramatic Intro Flashing lights were blinding my vision‚ and emergency sirens were screaming in my ears‚ both making it hard to process the situation I was in. I looked around praying to find something familiar that could possibly give me guess as to what was happening‚ but was interrupted by sharp creaking of a metal door‚ which robbed my attention. I looked towards the direction the sound was coming from and was shocked to see the face of a man‚ I tried moving but couldn’t. Confused I asked him
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true him. The man I wanted him to be‚ the man he was destined to be. A perfection. I was there when he was at his lowest and at his best. I decided that my revenge was not dumping him because that would be just a revenge. You do not hurt a person you love if you do not have a good reason. I had a reason to hurt him the same way he hurt me‚ because of me and not him. That is why revenge is just a first step. I have to break him in order to make him the strongest. He is a well educated‚ rich‚ ambitious
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