individuality. He is ashamed of his personal appearance and looks towards social advancement as a way to assure himself and those around him of his value and establish who he is. Through out the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"‚ T.S. Eliot explores Prufrock’s conflict with society‚ love and self. The issue of Prufrock’s place in society leads to an "overwhelming question..."(10)‚ which is never identified‚ asked‚ or answered in the poem. This "question" is somehow associated with his social
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Rockwell’s The Love Song has captured my attention time and time again with its expressive and intriguing narrative. Sylvan Barnet tells us that in the critique of a work we must ask ourselves‚ “What is my first response to the work?” Barnet goes on to say that we may eventually change our understanding of the work or revoke our initial response completely. Regardless of our conclusions‚ our first impressions weigh heavily on our perception of a piece. My first response to The Love Song was one of
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of his love and lust for women quite openly while Eliot seems more wary of the temptations they pose. This slightly Puritanical outlook that Eliot had brought with him over from America to the more relaxed Europe is one that can be seen quite clearly in A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. This poem was a pointed attack on all the well-dressed‚ upstanding bourgeois who loved their material wealth but had nothing when it came to love or happiness. But not only that‚ in a way it is a love song of unrequited
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WEI 1 WEI XIN MS EILEEN ENG4U 11 September 2012 Love to experience the happiness between man and woman. Couples always believe that their happiness is the emblem of eternity with love‚ and their happiness can improves with age. The fact‚ however‚ this is an impossible task in practice. In “Love the way you lie”‚ a very popular song‚ the lyric proves the former view. Although the couples still love each other deeply‚ they cannot be happy anymore. With the passage of time‚ the man does no longer
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Alan Blunt was a calculating man. He had to be. It was the nature of his work. Where other men saw accidents and mishaps‚ Blunt saw connections. Coincidences were for the ignorant and in this business naivety got you killed. As the sleek black Rolls-Royce pulled away from Brompton Cemetery and began to make its slow way back to Liverpool street through the heavy afternoon traffic‚ Blunt began to think of the latest problem before him. Herod Sayle. Beloved by the nation‚ Sayle’s "generous gift"
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Ezra. The epigraph of the poem is a quotation from Dante Alighieri´s Divine Comedy‚ from the first of the three canticas‚ Inferno. The reason for that is Eliot´s obsession and extensive reading of Dante at that time. Eliot´s poetry‚ including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is the combination of past and modern time. The modern is usually front and center of his work and it is completed with different allusions to the past‚ such as William Shakespeare‚ the Greeks and more. By form‚ “Prufrock”
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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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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1. I would describe Prufrock’s fantasy as a morbid fantasy he has come up with‚ that creates a long metaphor which correlates to Dante’s Divine Comedy. Through his mesmerizing use of dramatic monologue‚ he compares his version of hell as a lonely and abandoned dream‚ possible consciousness; that leads me to conclude that Prufrock’s problem ranges from a state of depression and loneliness that he integrates into this strange‚ ironic love song. 2. The simile in
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot is a poem I would not recommend anyone still trying to hang on to his or her youth. T. S. Eliot’s poem‚ about a man named J. Alfred Prufrock‚ is a pessimistic poem looking at the seemingly wasted life of an aging man. The poem is told from the viewpoint of a very sad man named J. Alfred Prufrock. The poem takes place in the city of St. Louis‚ which T. S. Eliot does not portray in a very good light. T. S Eliot’s creation of a depressing mood‚ powerful
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towards one common goal. For example‚ during the Vietnam war‚ many songs regarding war were created. These songs motivated many people to rise up together in order to oppose war. The song that stood out to me the most would be “I Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore” by Phil Ochs. This song moved quickly and poetically as through
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