What Will Continue to Make Eliot's Poetry Worthy of Critical Study
Critical Study of Texts: Poetry – T.S Eliot
Task: “What Will Continue To Make Eliot's Poetry Worthy Of Critical Study?” Referring to two poems, defend the question through a critical evaluation of Eliot’s poetry, analysing the construction, content and language
Modernism is a literary movement that emerged in the early 20th century in response to social reforms, developments in psychology and anthropology, and the rapid industrialisation and mechanisation of society. There is a strong connection between the ideas and practices in modernist literature and the philosophies, politics, thinking and art movements of this time period. T.S Eliot, poet, critic and editor, was at the forefront of this movement and his poems 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'(Text 1) and ‘The Journey of the Magi’(Text 2) are acclaimed by many as the most prominent poetry of the era. Elliot's poetry will continue to be worthy of critical study because of its value as an immaculate example of modernist poetry; his ability to imbue characters with a complex individual psyche and a rounded, engaging persona; and the textual integrity of his works due to a variety of possible readings and interpretations. Through a critical evaluation of his poetry and an analysis of the construction, content and language within, this essay will defend the question: 'What will continue to make Eliot's poetry worthy of critical study?'
The construction of ‘The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock’ is instrumental towards the continuation of Eliot’s poetry’s worthiness for critical study. Modernists believed that their work should reflect their fractured and chaotic world; as such fragmentation was employed by Eliot, allowing the responder to draw meaning from Prufrock's train of thought. We find coherent sense and meaning in the apparently chaotic combination of the epigraph from the old; an allusion to the 14th century, Dante's Inferno, and the rest of the poem, the new - a 20th century, dramatic monologue. The
Task: “What Will Continue To Make Eliot's Poetry Worthy Of Critical Study?” Referring to two poems, defend the question through a critical evaluation of Eliot’s poetry, analysing the construction, content and language
Modernism is a literary movement that emerged in the early 20th century in response to social reforms, developments in psychology and anthropology, and the rapid industrialisation and mechanisation of society. There is a strong connection between the ideas and practices in modernist literature and the philosophies, politics, thinking and art movements of this time period. T.S Eliot, poet, critic and editor, was at the forefront of this movement and his poems 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'(Text 1) and ‘The Journey of the Magi’(Text 2) are acclaimed by many as the most prominent poetry of the era. Elliot's poetry will continue to be worthy of critical study because of its value as an immaculate example of modernist poetry; his ability to imbue characters with a complex individual psyche and a rounded, engaging persona; and the textual integrity of his works due to a variety of possible readings and interpretations. Through a critical evaluation of his poetry and an analysis of the construction, content and language within, this essay will defend the question: 'What will continue to make Eliot's poetry worthy of critical study?'
The construction of ‘The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock’ is instrumental towards the continuation of Eliot’s poetry’s worthiness for critical study. Modernists believed that their work should reflect their fractured and chaotic world; as such fragmentation was employed by Eliot, allowing the responder to draw meaning from Prufrock's train of thought. We find coherent sense and meaning in the apparently chaotic combination of the epigraph from the old; an allusion to the 14th century, Dante's Inferno, and the rest of the poem, the new - a 20th century, dramatic monologue. The