also shared by TS Eliot‚ who through his poems “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”‚”Preludes” and “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” ‚ communicates a pessimistic view on the dehumanising urban environment‚ the decay of relationships as a result of superficiality and the monotony of modern life. TS Eliot communicated his modernist negativity to urban‚ industrialised cities through his poems. “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” and ”Preludes” are a few of his poems that strongly express his dislike to
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Imagery and Symbolism in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” Imagery and Symbolism: Imagery and symbolism are two literary conventions used in a variety of genres including poetry. They are both used in similar ways to enhance an author’s message or theme. Imagery is a technique that uses strong sensory words to create a vivid mental picture for the reader‚ so that he or she can see something as the author sees it. It is related to the five Senses‚ sigh ‚ sound ‚smell and touch . Symbolism
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Spring K | St. John | AP LIT A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Q&A Part I 1. Simon Dedalus and John Casey argue with Dante Riordan‚ a devout supporter of the priests who disowned Charles Parnell over his adultery with Kitty O’Shea. Dedalus and Casey feel that the church and the state should be separated‚ that religion should not be an influence in the subject of politics. Dante‚ on the other hand‚ sees the priests as God’s representatives‚ saying that it was right for
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considered to be a poet who emerged fully formed. This is to say that he did not have a young period where his poems lacked focus or power. His first major poem was The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. This poem still stands as one of the greats poems of the 20th century. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is concerned with a fragmented worldview that came to embody Eliot’s entire body of work. The poem is written in a stream of consciousness style that was a hallmark of Eliot’s work. The title
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between the ideas and practices in modernist literature and the philosophies‚ politics‚ thinking and art movements of this time period. T.S Eliot‚ poet‚ critic and editor‚ was at the forefront of this movement and his poems ’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’(Text 1) and ‘The Journey of the Magi’(Text 2) are acclaimed by many as the most prominent poetry of the era. Elliot’s poetry will continue to be worthy of critical study because of its value as an immaculate example of modernist poetry; his ability
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Symbols represent an important aspect in the system of objective correlative. Jules Laforgue‚ a French symbolist‚ believes that "life should be represented in literature through symbolic and not realistic form". In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"‚ symbols are employed through certain images which are specific and symbolic in addition to some textual symbols which are purely Eliotian. Eliot knows how to choose some mythical symbols and other symbols which he derives from different cultures and
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also at the Sorbonne in Paris. At the Sorbonne‚ he found inspiration from writers such as Dante and Shakespeare and also from ancient literature‚ modern philosophy and eastern mysticism. Eliot’s first poem he wrote was "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in 1915. Eliot converted his religion to Anglo - Catholicism and in 1927‚ his poetry took on new spiritual meaning. Ash Wednesday was the first poem he wrote after his conversion in 1930. It is said that it traces the pattern of Eliot’s spiritual
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that only has misfortunes to look forward to. Hamlet questions his own death to being morally correct‚ as the world has become an undesirable destination. Though‚ Hamlet is reluctant to take his own life‚ as he fears eternal suffering he could face in hell‚ as the Christian religion restricts the action of
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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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Every child becomes an adult—a boy to a man‚ a girl to a woman. In the novel‚ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man‚ published in 1916 by an Irish writer‚ James Joyce illustrates the protagonist‚ Stephen Dedalus‚ and his journey to seek for identity. While the title of the novel insinuates that the protagonist is going to become an artist‚ the novel also portrays Stephen’s sense of isolation that comes from the ambiguity and bewilderment that he experiences with his family‚ society‚ and country.
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