Overview Tourette Syndrome (TS)‚ also named multiple tics-coprolalia syndrome‚ was initially described by Gilles de la Tourette in 1900. It is a “developmentally regulated neurobehavioral disorder characterized by multiform‚ frequently changing motor and phonic tics.” (Brunn‚ Cohen‚ &Leckman‚ 2012) Tics means “involuntary‚ rapid repetitive and stereotyped movements of individual muscle groups.” (Brunn‚ Cohen‚ &Leckman‚ 2012) Although the definite cause of TS is unknown‚ it is well recognized that
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written by T.S. Eliot depicts a worrisome older man‚ contemplating his life letting his insecurities restrict him from living. The heroine in “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” Prufrock‚ his call to adventure begins when he decides to open up the subconscious to see and understand what it is that makes us human. The opening line of the poem haunting and eerie‚ “Let us go then‚ you and I /When the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherized upon a table” (Eliot) although the people
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. ELIOT Questions for Discussion 1. How does the epigraph from Dante’s Inferno help Eliot comment on the modern world in“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? What does it tell us about the setting of this poem? How is Montefeltro’s miscalculation related to the poem? Prufrock laments that the mermaids will not sing to him. Prufrock’s dilemma represents the inability to live a meaningful existence in the modern world.[24] McCoy and Harlan wrote "For many
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“La Figlia Che Piange” is a poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot‚ which was printed in Prufock and Other Observations in 1917. In this poem‚ Eliot describes a very familiar incident to the readers: A breakup‚ which is not something mutual in the poem. It is unexpected for the female. However‚ Eliot does not focus on the female and her suffering. In contrast‚ he‚ I think‚ wants to display how the man‚ who wishes to break up‚ suffers and how he is paralyzed by the breakup. Of course‚ one may interpret the
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In his 1923 essay “Ulysses‚ Order and Myth‚” T. S. Eliot predicated that rather than the narrative style of poetry popularized by poets of the Romantic era‚ poets of the twentieth-century would instead employ James Joyce’s “mythical method‚” a technique characteristic of heavy mythological‚ historical‚ and literary allusions used to create a “continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity” (177). Doing so allowed a poem to reach a new universal level of significance regardless of era‚
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impulse an “instinct‚” one is to believe that this desire for imitation is a matter of survival‚ of necessity. The question then arises‚ of what does one feel compelled to imitate and in what way does it aid in our survival? According to essays by T.S. Eliot and Barbara Johnson‚ the purpose of literature is to be a part of a necessary creative process‚ sometimes to the extent that the creator is lost and consumed by the cause. The first issue to tackle is the question of what literature imitates. Imitation
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technology. . In “Preludes”‚ Eliot explores the idea of a monotonous existence and the alienating effect that it has on individuals due to the city and the urbanisation of it. In “London”‚ Blake identifies and conveys alienation through the oppression of the city and how it isolated people‚ and in “The Pedestrian”‚ Bradbury explores the concept of alienation due to the development of technology and the seemingly brainwashing effect it has. In his poem‚ “Preludes”‚ T.S Eliot explores the concept of a
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or in The United States‚ had goals to achieve be it social‚ economical‚ or educational. The one to have affected the critical views in the world was‚ Mathew Arnold‚ whose ideas were much centred about culture and specifying culture. After came T.S Eliot who had another point of view‚ the one that reacted against Mathew Arnold’s critics and ideas so he can come up with new critics and a new way to look at literature so he can eliminate the anarchy that Mathew Arnold has caused. There is also the so
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in Europe” because the world is a tattered wasteland where everyone is in search of answers – a fortuneteller provides false security with her seemingly absolute understanding of destiny‚ and everyone is desperate enough to believe her. (2) Because Eliot regards fortunetelling as little more than empty consolation for the desperate‚ he writes with levity to poke fun at the concept. These two points comprise the general gist of the stanza‚ but the allusive way in which he elucidates this is what makes
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Theory of Impersonality T.S. Eliot’s impersonal conception of art and the fullest expression of his classicist attitude towards art and poetry are essentially given by him in his essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. Eliot explains his theory of impersonality by examining first‚ the relation of the poet to the past and secondly‚ the relation of the poem to its author. According to his view the past is never dead‚ it lives in the present. “No poet or no artist has his complete meaning alone
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