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    Thomas Stearns Eliot was a publisher‚ essayist and most importantly‚ a well-known poet. He was born on 26 September 1888 in St. Louis‚ Missouri in the United States. Even though he was of American origin‚ nowadays he plays an extremely important role in British literature since he obtained British citizenship in 1927. As a young intellectual looking for his place in the world‚ life brought him to Oxford in 1914. Although he liked Oxford‚ because of his restless spirit he was not satisfied there

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    “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot is a poem I would not recommend anyone still trying to hang on to his or her youth. T. S. Eliot’s poem‚ about a man named J. Alfred Prufrock‚ is a pessimistic poem looking at the seemingly wasted life of an aging man. The poem is told from the viewpoint of a very sad man named J. Alfred Prufrock. The poem takes place in the city of St. Louis‚ which T. S. Eliot does not portray in a very good light. T. S Eliot’s creation of a depressing mood‚ powerful

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    Eliot challenges his audience to consider the state of his character’s subconscious living within a corrupted society. Thomas Stearns Eliot’s poems‚ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock published in 1915‚ and Preludes published in 1917‚ resonate the decay and alienation of Eliot’s characters and civilization. Eliot employs various poetic techniques to challenge the reader to explore social fragmentation of the human psyche and the futility of an industrialization society. Eliot explores seclusion

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    The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Response) When thinking of a typical love story a reader expects compassion and romance‚ but in T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ romance is not the topic of discussion. The backdrop of the poem is a typical London‚ England day with numerous travels through the seamless foggy streets early 1900’s London. The mystery or puzzle through the poem tend to transpire with cleverly diverted unanswered question from the narrator that somehow get overlooked

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    insignificant actions are affected. In the poem‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot‚ Prufrock’s anxieties clearly affect him in the way in which he lives his life. Prufrock experiences paralysis to the industrial world he lives in‚ and as a result he has trouble with truly enjoying the smallest gestures of life itself.

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    How has Eliot used both conventional and Modernist poetic techniques to represent his Modernist concerns? The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Preludes expresses Eliot’s Modernist concerns about the lack of morals and values in modern society through the use of personas within the urban landscape and the urban society. Modern man’s lifestyle of repetition of trivial tasks and the lack of meaningful things in life is represented and emphasised through the use of alliteration‚ metaphor‚ fragmentation

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    Ezra Pound and TS Eliot were both expatriate Americans who were part of the early Modernist movement in the beginning of the twentieth century. The two men were great friends during this time and Pound took Eliot under his wing‚ publishing and promoting his work and introducing him to all the right people. In their early work as they are just discovering and honing their talents the idea of culture and identity was of huge importance to them both. They had both left America to travel and experience

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    Love is a popular topic many people claim to have knowledge and understanding of. However‚ is it actually a matter to figure out? Many have different interpretations of what true love is and how it is gained‚ felt‚ and shown. Such as in‚ T.S. Eliot’s‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” a poem about a middle-aged and over privileged man who suffers from social anxiety causing him to constantly pity himself as well as be surprisingly self conscious when about to approach women. In the famous William

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    Landscape in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot Although the full meaning within T. S. Eliot’s dense poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” proves difficult to grasp‚ the deep meaning packed into every word makes the pursuit to understanding this poem a never-ending adventure. Scenery in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” represents an intensely psychological account which should never‚ in any instance‚ by taken literally. The loss of time‚ the confusion of past‚ present

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    universal as love. Interpretation “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” by T.S. Eliot takes the reader on a depressing‚ timid‚ overcautious‚ middle-aged man. It could be said that he is afraid of his own shadow. Eliot begins the poem with a short excerpt from Dante’s epic poem; “Divine Comedy;” to suggest that Prufrock‚ like Count Guido is in hell. This is an example of allusion. While Count Guido is in the Eighth Circle of Hell; Prufrock is in a hell on earth. Like Count Guido; Prufrock can present

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