In Sylvia Plath’s "The Arrival of the Bee Box" and T. S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" both speakers are burdened by great mental anguish caused by their feeling of insignificance and powerlessness in the world. They both fear and accept the prospect of death‚ while acknowledging life as its opposite. These are the two sides of the human experience. Through an internal monologue‚ Prufrock explores his feeling of uselessness and displacement in society‚ while in "The Arrival of the
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"The Waste Land" is a modernist poem by T. S. Eliot caused a sensation when it was published in 1922. It is today the most widely translated and studied English-language poem of the twentieth century. This is perhaps surprising given the poem’s length and its difficulty‚ but Eliot’s vision of modern life as plagued by sordid impulses‚ widespread apathy‚ and pervasive soullessness packed a punch when readers first encountered it. Pound’s influence on the final version of "The Waste Land" is significant
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The Aspects of Parenting in Silas Marner “Love and Respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships.” Jodie Foster says. There are no constraints to love In the book of Silas Marner by George Eliot this is very true‚ all children need love and respect from their parents because all children have a privation of wanting to be loved. In the novel‚ Silas is a man who is living the life when his best friend William Pane accuses him of stealing from the church and Silas’s
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enrichment of content and meaning in the poem. There is an attempt to convey the Cubist traits and find concrete examples in the poem. This study will try to specify evidences for conformity of cubism and multiplicity of narration in the poem. While Eliot juxtaposed so many perspectives in seemingly set of disjointed images‚ there is “painful task of unifying ..‚ jarring and incompatible perspectives“ in The Waste Land. Like a cubist painting‚ there is a kind of variety of narration in unity through
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this void with material things such as wealth‚ fame‚ friends‚ sex‚ and work‚ individuals still lack fulfilment. Often when people become cognizant that the material world will not satisfy their longing‚ they turn to spiritual comfort. The poets T.S Eliot‚ Philip Larkin‚ and Matthew Arnold comment on humanity’s tendency to loiter with the notion of God and otherworldliness. Respectively‚ through their poems “The Journey of the Magi‚” “Church Going‚” and “Dover Beach‚” the poets publicize their
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Eliot sought to combine his poetic talent with the form of drama in this excellent and outstanding text. It is easy to see the massive influence that poetry has on this play‚ as there are only two sections that are written in verse‚ which are Thomas’s Christmas sermon and the so-called "apologies" of the Knights to the audience. Apart from this‚ the rest of the characters speak in verse which is very powerful and is poetic in its intensity. Note‚ for example‚ the following quote from the opening
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The changing conditions of the early 20th century had a clear and profound impact on T.S Eliot as his works convey a definitive Modernist ideas and literary techniques. With the breakout of World War I‚ evoked a sense that the great human civilisation was destroying itself. This belief was further compounded with the Second Industrial Revolution‚ which introduced innovative science‚ and revealed newly discovered advancements in the economical‚ political‚ cultural and most importantly the religious
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T.S. Eliot projects several levels of modern experience in ‘The Waste Land’. These are related to various symbolic Waste Lands in modern times such as ( a ) The Waste Land‚ religion where there are but no water ( b ) The Waste Land of spirit‚ where all moral springs are dried up and ( c ) The Waste Land of the reproductive instinct where sex has become a means of physical gratification rather than a source of regeneration. The Wasteland is mainly concerned with the theme of barrenness in the
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December 2011 "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot and The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald but have similar themes and were both published in 1925. These pieces of literature illustrate two similar opinions on the same time period. There is a parallel between the two works that can easily be shown. The reoccurring themes of senselessness‚ unattainable fantasies‚ and facade appear and both works and can be cleanly displayed. "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot states in lines three trough six "We are the
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Eliot uses many poetry techniques to convey a sense of urban alienation throughout this poem. These techniques include description and imagery‚ contrast and irony‚ rhetorical questions and rhyming. These also reflect the spirit of the early twentieth century. Straight from the introduction of the poem‚ Eliot already starts to utilise imagery to describe the emotions and themes that the poem conveys. The line ‘Like a patient etherised upon a table’ suggests that there is something wrong with the
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