mental stability. Though written in different periods of T.S. Eliot’s life the poems ’The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’‚ ’Portrait of a Lady’ and ’Preludes’ uses a variety of poetic devices to portray these thematic concerns. Through the portrayal of his numerous protagonists Eliot explores the effects of exclusion and its tendency for the individual to feel self pity. In the poem‚ The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock‚ Eliot’s use of personification in the lines‚ "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon
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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 society. The changing modern world with fallen morals and events such as the
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T.S. Eliot’s Poetical Devices T.S. Eliot was one of the great early 20th Century poets. He wrote many poems throughout his career including "The Waste Land"(1922)‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"(1917)‚ and "Ash Wednesday"(1930). Throughout his poems‚ he uses the same poetic devices to express emotion and give an added depth to his poetry and act like a trademark in his works. One of the devices used throughout is his personification of nature. The second device he often uses is allusions
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world enters the industrial age. While both witness the dynamic transition‚ they both criticize the modernity but in different methods. Two authors’ relations regarding techniques and themes would be analyzed by comparing Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) and Lawrence’s two poem - How Beastly the Bourgeois is (1929) and Bavarian Gentians (1923). Eliot and Lawrence both display modernistic aspects. Modern middle class of England‚ so called Bourgeois is strongly criticized in Lawrence’s
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speaker tells us. For instance‚ in the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot‚ the implied auditor is Prufrocks lover. We know of her presence when Prufrock addresses her‚ for example Let us go then‚ you and I. This first line of the poem tells us then that the poem is addressed to a specific person. Another instance is Oh‚ do not ask‚ What is it? This line tells us that the auditor‚ that is the lover does interact with the speaker‚ Prufrock‚ but we know about these interactions only
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Symbols represent an important aspect in the system of objective correlative. Jules Laforgue‚ a French symbolist‚ believes that "life should be represented in literature through symbolic and not realistic form". In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"‚ symbols are employed through certain images which are specific and symbolic in addition to some textual symbols which are purely Eliotian. Eliot knows how to choose some mythical symbols and other symbols which he derives from different cultures and
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The Magnificent Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock In 1915 a controversial poem titled “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was released by T.S. Eliot. It is a first person stream of consciousness narrative based on a man at a social gathering who is having some social anxiety. This character is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man; an overeducated‚ eloquent‚ neurotic‚ and emotionally stilted figure. The main character Alfred speaks about his love for the women of
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” By: T. S. Eliot The poem by T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a dramatic monologue written in 1915. Close to the end of the poem Mr. Prufrock stated “It is impossible to say just what I mean” (104). This statement will be analyzed to discover the hidden connotation of this phrase and convey the speaker’s ultimate goal. The questions that will be answered are: What does Prufrock mean when stating “It is impossible to say just what I mean” (104)
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Dear Erica‚ How are you? Don’t stress too much on your English exam on you’ll begin to grow a ’bald spot’ (if you haven’t realised‚ that phrase is from Prufrock). Well‚ let me assist you by revealing my feelings and analysis on TS Eliot’s issues and concerns. Since I’ve only studied ’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’‚ ’Portrait of a Lady’‚ ’Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ’Preludes’‚ I’ll be relating my explanation to those poems. The human conditions that Eliot represents are trivial‚ struggle
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used this idea of objective correlative‚ which was made famous by and also features in both ‘Prufrock’ and ‘Sweeney among the Nightingales’. It is a dominant factor of most of his poems. Eliot defined objective correlative as “a set of objects‚ a situation‚ a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion.” There are numerous modernist features in ’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚’ such as the stream-of-consciousness method showing Prufrock’s disconnected thinking processes
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