1. Describe the speaker of this poem: J. Alfred Prufrock‚ the speaker of this poem‚ is a lonely middle-aged man who is still looking for love. He admits to himself that no-one would love him back even if he would to try. And he already feels like that he’s alienated for society and it has made him into a lonely person. Also‚ he tends to avoid doing things out of the ordinary because it would disturb his daily routine. And he really like fantasy because it doesn’t make him uncomfortable and he
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both their concerns and the stylistic features of their texts. Consider this statement by exploring the relationship between text and context in at least two poems you studied by Eliot. Eliot’s modernist poems‚ Preludes and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ depict the effects of industrialisation on societal consciousness‚ through lenses coloured by war and suffering. Through the eyes of two alienated individuals‚ Eliot suggests that life is bereft of meaning‚ and that to live is not to
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LITR221 19 March 2017 Compare and contrast J. Alfred Prufrock and Nick “Big Two-Hearted River” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” are two stories with different characters and meanings. The stories contain characters named Nick and Alfred Prufrock. Nick appears to be somewhat of a hero in “Big Two-Hearted River.” Biographically‚ he appears to be the same as the writer‚ though one should not assume Nick’s character is the author. J. Alfred Prufrock was more of a middle-aged intellectual man who
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Song Analysis: Same Love – Macklemore “What’s unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.” Alex Sanchez provides a perfect quote for the opening of this paper. Macklemore’s song and Sanchez’s quote fit hand in hand without flaw. Thus‚ this song is basically trying to make a statement to all people that discrimination against homosexuality is truly sickening. It doesn’t matter what religion you are or what belief you might have;
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The Song of Solomon Summary: Written by the wisest man to ever live‚ Solomon‚ “Song of Songs” is a composition of lyric poems which portrays the theme of love between a man and a woman and can be seen almost written as a diary of sorts. The book explores the feelings‚ hopes‚ fears‚ and the passion between a man and a woman. It can be seen as a celebration of human sexuality. Just through the first few chapters‚ we learn so much of what a relationship is supposed to look like for the believer and
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ways is Eliot’s ‘The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock’‚ an example of modernist writing? Discuss this in relationship to form as well as content. Although TS Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock contains many of the stylistic conventions that are now associated with modernist poetry‚ TS Eliot’s position on the established art forms and religious hierarchy that many writers of his generation rejected‚ and how this influenced Eliot’s composition of Prufrock‚ is highly debatable. In Modernism: The
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When reading the title‚ we often associate a love song as something jaunty‚pleasureable‚ and celebrating‚ or its other extreme‚ regretting‚ nostalgic‚ and full of pity for the singer’s troubles in love. With Williams the singer‚ the main idea revolves around the concept of an incomplete union in first person point of view‚ which makes the reading more personal as the reader is using “I” instead you or he. From this concept stem the ideas that this poem is about hopelessness or happiness‚ communal
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In T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” Eliot develops the character‚ J. Alfred Prufrock using allusions to other works of literature such as‚ Dante’s Inferno‚ Marvel’s “His Coy Mistress‚”. In this way‚ Eliot sets forth a psychological comparison to assist the reader in understanding of Prufrock’s psyche and existentialist attitude toward life. Dante’s Inferno is his allegorical depiction of hell that depicts hell as a set of nine levels (or circles) closely aligned to the
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” By: T. S. Eliot The poem by T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a dramatic monologue written in 1915. Close to the end of the poem Mr. Prufrock stated “It is impossible to say just what I mean” (104). This statement will be analyzed to discover the hidden connotation of this phrase and convey the speaker’s ultimate goal. The questions that will be answered are: What does Prufrock mean when stating “It is impossible to say just what I mean” (104)
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The nature of the relationships throughout the poem seems to change from a seemingly equal sense of love from both goldfish‚ to a more one-sided relationship in the last stanza of the poem. In the first stanza the male character is said to be a “drifter”‚ this foreshadows the later stages of the poem as he slowly becomes ambitionless. He is bounded by his own infatuations so much so that he fails to realize what is happening in the present; this is signified in the second stanza where the idea of
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