In T. S Eliot’s literary work‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is introduced with an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno to support the protagonist’s paralysis and the futility of life. The poem is considered a vital work in post modern art used to deconstruct and dehumanize the protagonist’s subjectivity. The epigraph from Dante’s Inferno is quoted by a man trapped in the eighth circle of Dante’s fictional construct of Hell and shares similar existential outlooks on the purpose of life. The epigraph
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The Song of Songs vs. Lady Antebellum’s “Our Kind of Love” The excerpts from The Bedford Anthology of World Literature entitled The Song of Songs can correlate to the contemporary love song “Our Kind of Love” sang by the notorious‚ award-winning country music group Lady Antebellum. Besides the fact that these two works were written under antithetical circumstances and during distinctly different time periods‚ they both share many of the same attributes. Both of these works closely examine the word
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Love is a word that can be described in many ways. In the song “Toxic” by Britney Spears‚ poison is defined as love‚ an addiction that one cannot escape. When one is in love‚ one is usually in a state in which they are oblivious of all their exterior surroundings and can only focus on one thing: the person they love. In fact‚ that love develops into an addiction. That is where I believe the problem lies. Adolescents and young adults throw their lives away in the early stages of their lives because
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Question: Part A: Analyze the social and historical context of a particular poem Poem: T. S. Eliot‚ ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The context of any given text whether poetry‚ novels or a movie is always integral to its understanding. Social and historical context of not only the given text‚ but the writer’s context and reader’s context play an important role in the interpretation and understanding of the major ideas‚ issues‚ values and beliefs within the text. T.S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock “A reader’s response to a text is influenced by that responder’s social‚ cultural and historical context” Choosing one of T.S Eliot’s poems set for study‚ consider to what extent your personal response to your chosen poem has been shaped by the enduring power of its intellectual and artistic qualities. (Quote) “There will be time‚ there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;” Good morning /Afternoon Ms and fellow classmates. A
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mental health and/or intoxicating influences that may contribute to such antisocial behaviour. To understand and determine whether or not murderers are mad or just bad‚ the defining terms of “mental illness” and “evil” are imperative. The psychological definition of mental illness is “any of various disorders in which a person ’s thoughts‚ emotions‚ or behaviour are so abnormal as to cause suffering to himself‚ herself‚ or other people” (Oxford dictionary. 2012) and on the other hand evil
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The song “Where is the love” was released in 2003 in America by American hip hop group‚ Black Eyed Peas‚ which was written in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City (Ktohare4). There are multiple social and political problems during the early 2000s and this song addressed them like the problems on violence‚ terrorism‚ racism‚ hate‚ and anger (Frey‚ Hanenburg). Even though the whole song calls out all the negative things happening in the world‚ the main idea of the song is about peace
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T. S. Eliot uses irony and symbolism to capture the reader’s attention in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The poem has a dramatic discourse. The percipience of life’s emptiness is the main theme of the poem. Eliot exhorts the spiritual decomposition by exploring a type of life in death. T. S. Eliot‚ who in the Clark Lectures notes‚ "Real Irony is an expression of suffering"(Lobb‚ 53)‚ uses irony and symbolism throughout the poem to exemplify the suffering of J. Alfred Prufrock who believes
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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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Mad Hatters The term “mad hatters” comes from the nineteenth century‚ when hat designers made hats out of felt. The reason there was mercurious nitrate in the hats was because they had to use mercury to cure to felt. The mad hatters were mainly located in France. The hats the mad hatters made were 6 ½ to 8 inches in height. For example if your head was 22 inches in circumference your hat size would be 6 7/8 inches. On a lot of hats there was a symbol saying 10/6. Some people say
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