English 12 CP/ Period 6 6 December 2016 Human Condition In both poems‚ “On Monsieur’s Departure” and “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” they reveal very similar aspects in the human condition using figurative language. The use of figurative language in these poems makes it easier to portray the types of feelings that go through one’s head. In “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” the poem is talking about what seems to be more of what happens when one over thinks when he’s alone. Whereas in “On Monsieur’s
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similar to the speaker’s need‚ in “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell‚ of love from the women he addresses to. Time has an important role in both “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “To His Coy Mistress”. Both speakers use time in a way which best makes them feel comfortable with. "The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚" by T.S. Eliot‚ is considered a dramatic monologue. Some call the poem the "first Modernist poem". Andrew Marvell‚ an English poet‚ politician‚ and satirist. Marvell is commonly
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Modern Language Studies "Till Human Voices Wake Us and We Drown": Community in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Author(s): James C. Haba Reviewed work(s): Source: Modern Language Studies‚ Vol. 7‚ No. 1 (Spring‚ 1977)‚ pp. 53-61 Published by: Modern Language Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3194154 . Accessed: 18/03/2013 05:36 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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Society is very different in the world today compared to the early 20th century. The one thing that stayed over the years was imaging how to make good impressions and how others think. Charles Cooley discovered the looking glass theory following three particular phases for this process. Based on social interactions‚ or actions of others‚ individuals grow and create an image of their sense of self. The first phase in Cooley’s theory is imaging or evaluating one’s self image from another person’s
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table. We draw inferences from the text in which we build an image of the speaker through their tone and characteristics. These inferences can be drawn from both poems‚ “Mother to Son” and “Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock”. However‚ “Mother to Son” varies from “Love song of Alfred Prufrock” in which the role of the speakers have very different characters and meaning they are trying to convey. Both poems show us inside the characters of the two very different speakers. For starters‚ the speaker in “Mother
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most notable features of James Joyce ’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the use of Stephen as the main character‚ as well as a sort of literary device. Joyce‚ whose life so acutely resembles Stephen ’s‚ gives the character the surname "Dedalus‚" after the fabulous artificer of Greek mythology. As Stephen tires of his "borrowed" Irish culture‚ he starts to compare himself to the original Daedalus‚ who built wings for himself to escape the prison of King Minos of Crete. Like Daedalus‚ Stephen
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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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but in fact‚ although there are many similarities‚ there can also be many differences too. Upon comparison of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot and Afternoons and Coffee Spoons by Crash Test Dummies we see just this. These two poems share similarities in theme‚ and reference to time but do not have similar tones. The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and Afternoons and Coffee Spoons share the same theme of illness. This is seen in Afternoons and Coffee Spoons when the narrator says‚ “I
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used this idea of objective correlative‚ which was made famous by and also features in both ‘Prufrock’ and ‘Sweeney among the Nightingales’. It is a dominant factor of most of his poems. Eliot defined objective correlative as “a set of objects‚ a situation‚ a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion.” There are numerous modernist features in ’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚’ such as the stream-of-consciousness method showing Prufrock’s disconnected thinking processes
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For instance‚ in the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot‚ the implied auditor is Prufrocks lover. We know of her presence when Prufrock addresses her‚ for example Let us go then‚ you and I. This first line of the poem tells us then that the poem is addressed to a specific person. Another instance is Oh‚ do not ask‚ What is it? This line tells us that the auditor‚ that is the lover does interact with the speaker‚ Prufrock‚ but we know about these interactions only through what
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