T.S. Eliot was a literary and social critic‚ play writer‚ and publisher. The poem that made him well known was called “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. It was started in 1910‚ and was finally published in 1915. When poems are written‚ they typically reflect the emotional state that the author is in at the time. Due to the tone of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ the reader can interpret that T.S. Eliot may have been in a dark stage of his life. As every author has his or her own form
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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 Waste Land‚ by T. S. Eliot‚ appeared at a time when European society was not quite sure what to do with itself. Europe had just emerged from World War I‚ a war which had traumatized the continent and its society. Many felt the world was chaotic and inhumane. A sense of disillusionment and cynicism became pronounced and nihilism1 grew in popularity. This was also a time of personal difficulty for Eliot due to his failing marriage and the disorder of his nerves. Eliot expressed all of these feelings
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developments. Slower‚ more relaxed lifestyles have given way to lifestyles of a faster paced nature. George Eliot describes her preference for the leisure of the past‚ conveying the message that the rushed leisure of her time is hardly leisure at all. She accomplishes this by using several stylistic devices‚ including personification‚ imagery‚ and diction. <br> <br>The most obvious stylistic device used by Eliot is that of personification. She uses this device to create two people from her thoughts on old and
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Alfred Prufrock‚ written by T.S. Eliot‚ is a truly depressing poem. The poem concerns with a character (Prufrock) that can see and understand the values in life – love‚ joy‚ companionship‚ and courageousness – but is unable to act on his longings. The poem shows constant struggles of Prufrock’s uselessness. The worst part about his uselessness is that he is conscious of it. T.S. Eliot uses the theme of Paralysis‚ the incapacity to act‚ throughout the whole poem. Eliot uses the theme of paralysis to
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September 2012 Prufrock’s Melancholy “For I have known them all already‚ known them all:” (Eliot 49). To me this line defines the mood for the entire poem‚ it is such a simple statement‚ yet at the same time a deeply powerful and complex one. What is there left to do‚ what great adventures left to take‚ or great deeds left to be done. As Prufrock becomes and old man “I grow old…I grow old” (Eliot 119) he is searching for anything left in his life‚ some meaning‚ some purpose‚ something to inspire
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work shows the thumbprints of other poets that help to influence this distinctive style. One of those writers was T.S. Eliot. By time Plath was coming into her won as a poet‚ Eliot was already a legend and was arguably the most important English poet of the 20th century. It would be easy to see why Plath‚ aspiring to be a great poet herself‚ would be greatly influenced by Eliot. One of the ways we can see Eliot’s influence on Plath is in her use of surreal imagery mixed with opposing ideas with
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resorted to veiling it in a novel. She illustrates the different stages of relationships that her characters undergo‚ from courtship through to marriage‚ George Eliot had pondered enough about the position and the portrayal of women in Victorian society‚ and the various responses different types of women elicit. Probably this had enabled Eliot to sketch and embed in her novel‚ charming characters such as Dorothea and Rosamond‚ two very different women who reflected in them the different tunes of the
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Let’s Talk About Creativity‚ The Magnificent Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock In 1915 a controversial poem titled “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was released by T.S. Eliot. It is a first person stream of consciousness narrative based on a man at a social gathering who is having some social anxiety. This character is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man; an overeducated‚ eloquent‚ neurotic‚ and emotionally stilted figure. The main character Alfred speaks about
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novel sought to find truth and to show how it might be used to uplift humanity . For this reason the Victorian Age is an age of realism a deeper realism which strives to tell the truth ; showing moral and physical diseases as they are . George Eliot George Eliot was the pen-name chosen by Mary Anne (or Marian) Evans . She was born on November 22‚1819 in war wick shire . Mary Anne was the youngest of five children . She was afforded the privileges of a private education . She enjoyed books and learning
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