influenced by that responder’s social‚ cultural and historical context which is why texts including ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ can be interpreted in various ways by various people. ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‘‚ was composed by poet T.S Eliot. Born in St Louis Missouri USA‚ he attended Harvard University in 1906 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ was the earliest of T.S Eliot’s major works and was completed between 1910 and 1911
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FAMOUS WRITERS WORKS Caedmon and Cynewulf. Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer’s(1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales‚ Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess‚ The House of Fame‚ The Parliament of Fowles‚ The Legend of Good Women. Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe. Short Poems The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ‚Truth‚ Gentilesse‚ Merciles Beaute‚ Lak of Stedfastnesse‚ Against Women Unconstant Thomas Malory’s (1405-1471) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Utopia‚ The History
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environment * Homogenisation – the urban sprawl * Lack of religion and the lack of faith – post world war * Questioning the order and structure of society * Disillusionment in WW1 * Instability & a sense of chaos * People like Eliot and artists though that life were futile – fallout/impact from the first world war * Poems prior to first world war – tensions and anticipation of WW1 * A time of questioning – people are being more open * Women being educated‚ having a
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writers like T.S Eliot and Ezra Pound maintained their innovative literary techniques but changed the subject matter. The writings which were previously influenced by Aestheticism now shifted focus to more severe matters of preserving civilization. The keywords of literary reviews were fears about cultural degeneration and ’civilization’. Even the emerging English novelists like D.H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf changed their style and form according to the War. Notable writers like T.S Eliot also changed
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mEnglish Project [Type the company name] [Type the company address] [Type the phone number] [Type the fax number] [Pick the date] Done by: - M.R.Tejas 7’C’ Roll no.31 About William Wordsworth and his great work “The Prelude”. Submitted to: - Sandya Ma’am ------------------------------------------------- William Wordsworth William Wordsworth | Portrait of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon (National Portrait Gallery). | Born | 7 April 1770 Wordsworth House‚Cockermouth
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than just the “love song” of a romantic‚ agonized young man‚ the poem explores the Modernist alienation of the individual in society. Thomas Stearns Eliot‚ 1888 – 1965 Born into a prosperous Midwestern family‚ Eliot attended Harvard and then went on to study at Oxford. Although born an American‚ Eliot married an Englishwoman‚ gave up his American citizenship‚ and lived most of his life in London. Eliot made his living as a teacher‚ a banker‚ and an influential literary critic. He popularized the
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advances in science and the social sciences (e.g.‚Darwinism‚ Freudian theory)‚ Modernists felt a growing alienation incompatible with Victorian morality‚ optimism‚ and convention. The Modernist impulse is fueled in various literatures by industrialization and urbanization‚ by the search for an authentic response to a much-changed world. Among English-language writers‚ the best-known Modernists are T.S. Eliot‚James Joyce‚ Gertrude Stein‚ and Virginia Woolf. Composers‚ including Arnold Schoenberg‚Igor Stravinsky
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preserve the obsolete revolutionized language in various forms for it was felt that language could not convey the complete meaning- “That’s not all‚ that’s not what I meant at all” - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Writers such as Eliot‚ James Joyce‚ Virginia Woolf‚ W.B Yeats‚ Ezra Pound and so on were among the money who spurned the idea of realism and hence introduced a variety of literary tactic and devices. The Modernists drowned the Victorian bourgeois morality
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