"Gerontion" is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920. The work relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic‚ or elderly man‚ through a dramatic monologue which describes Europe after World War I through the eyes of a man who has lived the majority of his life in the 19th Century.[1] Eliot considered using this already published poem as a preface to The Waste Land‚ but decided to keep it as an independent poem.[2] Along with The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste
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How does T.S. Eliot convey the deteriorating state of humanity in his poems? 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
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The 1900s was a period of increasing industrialization of which society saw a growing sense of disillusionment. TS Eliot conveys aspects of modernism through his poems Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock and Rhapsody on a Windy Night‚ such as the increasing alienation of society‚ the loss of identity and the dismissal of functional traditional conventions. Eliot achieves this through the prevalent themes of time and memory‚ and the depiction of the urban environment. The isolation of individuals within
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for inspiration. He was the most influential figures of the modernist period‚ and influenced contemporaries like W. B. Yeats‚ Robert Frost‚ William Carlos Williams‚ Marianne Moore‚ H. D‚ James Joyce‚ Ernest Hemmingway‚ and most importantly‚ T. S. Eliot. He promulgated a movement in poetry called Imagism‚ a movement which derived its technique from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry‚ and which stressed clarity‚ precision‚ and economy of language‚ forgoing traditional rhyme and metre in order to
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Raymond Williams The twenty months between 1847 and 1848 were decisive for the English Novel. These months marked a new kind of consciousness‚ related to the ‘new and unprecedented civilisation in which it took shape.’ Williams attributes this consciousness to certain major changes which were taking place at this time. He lists the ever expanding influence of the Industrial Revolution‚ the struggle for democracy‚ the growth of cities and towns and Chartism (political and social reforms in the mid
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reflection and the fragmentation of thought‚ which further serves to mirror the fractured and chaotic nature of world. The modernist ideal of representing the tumultuous inner workings of the mind conveys the alienation and displacement that an individual experiences in an industrial society. Eliot creates an artistic portrait of such a society through the depiction of the superficial bourgeois social values upheld by upper middle class society in the 20th century which undermine Prufrock’s ability and
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The poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"(Prufrock) by T. S. Eliot (1920) and "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth (1798) both present reflections of their context of which they were written in. This context expands between the personal‚ historical‚ social‚ cultural and workplace experiences that a composer participates in during or before their time and affects the way a text is composed. Through close analysis of these texts‚ we are able to determine the beliefs and ideas of the period they
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Lahiri’s stories make us aware of the loneliness people experience as they go about their ordinary lives. Discuss. In her collection of short stories‚ Interpreter of Maladies‚ Lahiri depicts the lives of a range of different characters‚ and the loneliness they experience‚ whether it’s due to deportation or broken down relationships. In “A real Durwan”‚ Boori Ma was taken away from her family‚ and her lies separate her from the community. In “Sexy” Miranda feels lonely‚ and turns to Dev for false
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Modernistic literature is the expression of the modern era (1901-45). It tends to revolve around themes of individuality‚ the randomness of life‚ mistrust of government and religion and the disbelief in absolute truth. Literature scholars classify the years from 1900 to about 1965 as the Modernist period. During this period‚ society at every level underwent profound changes. War and industrialization seemed to devalue the individual. Global communication made the world a smaller place. The pace
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Well-Lighted Place‚" both share the same theme of the alienation of the individual from society. It is the moods of desolation and despair‚ loneliness and struggle that reflect both authors’ observations of the individual alienated from society. In his poem‚ Eliot reveals the first clue to the mood of the poem in his first line. The winter evening settles down The word winter might symbolize roughness‚ coldness and lifelessness. Here‚ Eliot is not in one of his happy moods‚ having referred to
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