effect in his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” where he gives his readers a description of “Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves‚ leaning out of windows?”(72‚ Eliot) but then follows the line with a bizarre image “I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”(73-74‚ Eliot). Although these poets’ uses of surreal metaphors seem similar‚ Plath gives this method her own stamp by personalizing it‚ unlike Eliot who used the character of Prufrock to convey emotion
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another person’s perspective. Next‚ taking that evaluation to imagine what others judge based off of that image. Lastly‚ taking in all the judgments to receive a certain feeling or reaction to that image. In the poem by T.S. Eliot titled‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred
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Eliot is often considered to be a poet who emerged fully formed. This is to say that he did not have a young period where his poems lacked focus or power. His first major poem was The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. This poem still stands as one of the greats poems of the 20th century. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is concerned with a fragmented worldview that came to embody Eliot’s entire body of work. The poem is written in a stream of consciousness style that was a hallmark of Eliot’s work
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And an immense bridge Going into white fog. Here is a broken city‚ And the wind throws the screams of gulls on your grave When I am talking with you. What is poetry which does not save Nations or people? A connivance with official lies‚ A song of drunkards whose throats will be cut in a moment‚ Readings for sophomore girls. That I wanted good poetry without knowing it‚ That I discovered‚ late‚ its salutary aim‚ In this and only this I find salvation. They used to pour millet on graves
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Further‚ I will analyse one of the primary manifestations of the modernist aesthetic‚ Literature. Lastly ‚ I wish to identify stylistic and thematic traits of the movement as well as probe representative works such as Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway‚ Eliot’s Prufrock and Other Observations and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to demonstrate the same. During the late nineteenth century many of Society’s cornerstones were broken. Scientific discoveries such as those of the X-Ray had egalitarian effects on society
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an innate desire for belonging‚ for its ability to reshape identities and provide individuals with a heightened sense of acceptance‚ security and purpose. William Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy As You Like It (c. 1599)‚ T.S. Eliot’s The Love song of J Alfred Prufrock (1915) and John Brack’s painting Collins St‚ 5pm (1955) demonstrate belonging as an intrinsic and self-driven connection shaped by one’s social and cultural contexts. Through these texts‚ the responder more clearly understands that belonging
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Mary Hyland 11/18/14 P.3 Poem Reaction Paragraphs Emily Dickinson: “Success Is Counted Sweetest” This poem brought about a reaction in me of true success. The message is those who succeed‚ never truly appreciate success: only those who fail‚ or who lack something‚ can truly appreciate the joy if they had succeeded. The poet says “those who ne’er succeed” genuinely value success‚ or as she says‚ “They “count” it “sweetest”. Dickinson also states the members of the victorious army
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its successful unity of society through its illumination of the feelings of disillusionment and rebellion. This illumination and unification is shown in a number of texts composed at the time‚ including; Preludes‚ The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot. T.S. Eliot’s Preludes portrays a futile existence in a desolate world‚ and a disillusioned protagonist‚ who sees the world for what it is. It was written between the years of 1910 and 1911 and can be viewed as a reflection
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Smith’s Academy in St. Louis and Milton Academy in Massachusetts. He later went to college at Harvard University where he became an editor for the Harvard Advocate which published many of his poems. This lead to his first publication‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” In 1925‚ he joined a publishing company which took over the publication of his magazine. After he graduated in 1910‚ he moved to Paris to study for the Sorbonne before finally returning to Harvard to continue graduate studies for philosophy
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