Farmer ENG 200 28 April 2016 The 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
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T.S. Eliot was and remains renowned for his disheartening poetry and bleak outlook on life. His modernistic poems were centred on ideas of despair‚ futility‚ decay and general disappointment of what life has provided. It can be argued‚ however‚ that his poetry evolves into a more hopeful form of expression after he became a Christian. Of his renowned poems‚ ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and ‘East Coker’ are two comparable pieces that‚ together‚ provide insight to Eliot’s life‚ values and
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Victoria Louis Perspective Through the Eyes of George Eliot What separates The Mill on the Floss from other novels of the Victorian era is its unique narrative style. The narrator gives readers a detailed insight into all of the characters and tells us their thoughts and feelings. However‚ the narrator sometimes switches over into the first person‚ using "I" and directly addressing the reader as "you." These breaks between the third person and the first person voice not only make for an interesting
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T.S. Eliot’s Poetical Devices T.S. Eliot was one of the great early 20th Century poets. He wrote many poems throughout his career including "The Waste Land"(1922)‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"(1917)‚ and "Ash Wednesday"(1930). Throughout his poems‚ he uses the same poetic devices to express emotion and give an added depth to his poetry and act like a trademark in his works. One of the devices used throughout is his personification of nature. The second device he often uses is allusions
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The Hippopotamus T.S Eliot In T.S. Eliot’s poem‚ The Hippopotamus‚ the first six lines of the poem‚ we can see the description of a hippopotamus. This Hippo is much like the human race because‚ we are simply made out of “flesh and blood.” Eliot utilizes religious reference in order to give us his point of view about religion and to picture them through the hippopotamus. ‚ Eliot uses anaphora to show the importance of baptism and to be accepted as a Child of God. He also wants to explain
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Current critical debate discusses contemporary poetry in terms of the Pound‚ Stevens or Williams’ era‚ forgetting T. S. Eliot‚ the poet who presided over the literary scenario for almost half a century. Eliot’s bookishness‚ political conservatism and religious leanings‚ together with the Modernist cultivation of an erudite‚ culturally charged idiom‚ have constituted a serious source of critical discontent. For the adepts of Marxist hermeneutics‚ his work came to represent “a privileged‚ closed‚ authoritative
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continual self-sacrifice‚ a continual extinction of personality’. He sees that in this depersonalization‚ the art approaches science. For Eliot‚ emotions in poetry must be depersonalized. Artistic self-effacement is essential for great artistic work. He opposed Coleridge who says that a worth of a poet is judged by his personal impressions and feelings. Eliot says that impressionism is not a safe guide. A poet in the present must be judged with reference to the poets in the past. Comparison and
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ISSN 1991-8178 A Study of T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral 1 Hamedreza Kohzadi and 2Fatemeh Azizmohammadi 1‚2 Department of English Literature‚ Science and Research Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Arak‚ Iran. Abstract: T. S. Eliot ’s‚ Murder in the Cathedral‚ was originally written for the Canterbury festival and tells the story of the murder of Archbishop Thomas Beckett (1118-70) by Henry II ’s henchmen. It is essentially an extended lyrical consideration of the proper residence
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described in a beautiful sense‚ whereas Eliot has compared it to a ’patient etherised upon a table’. The language Eliot has used is one of a scientific and sterile nature. He may be trying to raise questions as to what we perceive as beautiful in our modern world‚ as people used to believe nature was the most beautiful sight on earth‚ whereas now people may perceive modern buildings or sports cars to be beautiful objects. Therefore‚ it would be reasonable to assume Eliot wants to return to the past‚ as he
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The poem I am choosing to examine is T.S‚ Eliot ’s The Waste Land emerging from the Modernist poetic movement. The modern movement occurred after World War one (1914-1918). This war marked momentous changes on a global scale. Before 1914‚ English literature and it ’s ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918 Modern begins to define the twentieth century. Among the influences of Modernism were the rapid developments both socially and technologically. Also new
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