Ironically‚ the repetition of ‘my’ implies an illumination of identity‚ rather than its suppression. It seems the Prufrock is afraid reveal his identity may ‘disturb the universe’: “do I dare‚ and‚ do I dare?” Avoiding this ultimate question‚ he seeks peace in oblivion: I should have been a pair of ragged claws; scuttling across the floors of silent seas”. We are gregarious
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LITR221 19 March 2017 Compare and contrast J. Alfred Prufrock and Nick “Big Two-Hearted River” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” are two stories with different characters and meanings. The stories contain characters named Nick and Alfred Prufrock. Nick appears to be somewhat of a hero in “Big Two-Hearted River.” Biographically‚ he appears to be the same as the writer‚ though one should not assume Nick’s character is the author. J. Alfred Prufrock was more of a middle-aged intellectual man
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Mad Girl’s Love Song‚ by Sylvia Plath‚ is a modern poem of love‚ loss‚ and distress. Sylvia’s intended purpose of this particular poem was to express the narrator’s dismay of a lost love. After awaiting his return‚ and finally giving up‚ she begins to wonder if she had only made him up on the whims of her imagination. Sylvia expresses the meaning of her poem through the use of a unique rhyme scheme‚ repetition‚ and a religious allusion. Sylvia’s rhyme scheme throughout this poem is called a “villanelle
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both their concerns and the stylistic features of their texts. Consider this statement by exploring the relationship between text and context in at least two poems you studied by Eliot. Eliot’s modernist poems‚ Preludes and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ depict the effects of industrialisation on societal consciousness‚ through lenses coloured by war and suffering. Through the eyes of two alienated individuals‚ Eliot suggests that life is bereft of meaning‚ and that to live is not to
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Quest and Prufrock The Holy Grail is the central device in Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval‚ the Story of the Grail. T.S. Eliot takes this medieval romance and modernizes aspects of it in his poem‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The poem exhibits the features of a grail quest‚ albeit in an inverted form. Eliot uses Prufrock as a kind of Perceval; Prufrock is a character in search of a grail of sorts‚ but Prufrock’s grail takes the form of a woman. However‚ unlike Perceval‚ Prufrock is a more
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In the lecture “Love and Friendship in Hamlet”‚ David Bevington discusses how the love and friendship of Hamlet and Horatio extends the reader’s knowledge on the general understanding of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The major topic of Bevington’s lecture is Love and Friendship between different characters in the play‚ and how they differ from each other. The first relationship that contributes to the reader’s understanding of Hamlet Bevington mentioned was between Hamlet and Horatio. To the reader’s knowledge
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tragedy Hamlet‚ death and justice are reoccurring themes‚ but they are not as vital as love. Love affairs‚ broken hearts‚ and betrayal shuffle between each of the characters‚ causing hysteria within their lives. Shakespeare uses the characters to show how love‚ justice‚ and death play a part in each act‚ letting the reader debate the outcome and reasoning of each event. Hamlet’s love interest‚ Ophelia‚ has the greatest ties to love. She experiences love in many ways‚ including blind love and loss
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what ways is Eliot’s ‘The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock’‚ an example of modernist writing? Discuss this in relationship to form as well as content. Although TS Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock contains many of the stylistic conventions that are now associated with modernist poetry‚ TS Eliot’s position on the established art forms and religious hierarchy that many writers of his generation rejected‚ and how this influenced Eliot’s composition of Prufrock‚ is highly debatable. In Modernism:
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Rockwell’s The Love Song has captured my attention time and time again with its expressive and intriguing narrative. Sylvan Barnet tells us that in the critique of a work we must ask ourselves‚ “What is my first response to the work?” Barnet goes on to say that we may eventually change our understanding of the work or revoke our initial response completely. Regardless of our conclusions‚ our first impressions weigh heavily on our perception of a piece. My first response to The Love Song was one of
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people who we are in love with and that usually causes misconceptions and misapprehensions with those who surround you or even your own partner. This connects a lot with the relations between Ophelia and Hamlet who shares a relationship full of confusion‚ ambivalence‚ and apathy. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ various questions and disputes have been raised as to whether or not Hamlet is really in love with Ophelia. Although there are scenes where Hamlet has shown his love for Ophelia is not real
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