poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” where he gives his readers a description of “Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves‚ leaning out of windows?”(72‚ Eliot) but then follows the line with a bizarre image “I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”(73-74‚ Eliot). Although these poets’ uses of surreal metaphors seem similar‚ Plath gives this method her own stamp by personalizing it‚ unlike Eliot who used the character of Prufrock to convey emotion. By incorporating
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arise? Is it something biologically inherited or is it a product of socialisation? Identity is usually defined as the characteristics of how a person presents themselves in society. However in Mudrooroo’s Wild Cat Falling‚ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot‚ and Going Home written by Archie Weller suggests that there is something from within that will always remain as our core identity. The persona in the three texts‚ are passive victims of socialisation and adopt a “mask” that conceal
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T.S. Eliot’s Poetical Devices T.S. Eliot was one of the great early 20th Century poets. He wrote many poems throughout his career including "The Waste Land"(1922)‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"(1917)‚ and "Ash Wednesday"(1930). Throughout his poems‚ he uses the same poetic devices to express emotion and give an added depth to his poetry and act like a trademark in his works. One of the devices used throughout is his personification of nature. The second device he often uses is allusions
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BLAKE Chimney Sweeper Many little boys die from chimney sweeping‚ “Songs of Innocence” The Lamb The lamb is a common metaphor for Jesus Christ‚ who is also called the "The Lamb of God" in John 1:29 London The poem reflects Blake’s extreme disillusionment with the suffering he saw in London The Garden of Love "The Garden of Love" is written to express Blake’s beliefs on the naturalness of sexuality and how organised religion‚ particularly the orthodox Christian church of Blake’s time with
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enters the industrial age. While both witness the dynamic transition‚ they both criticize the modernity but in different methods. Two authors’ relations regarding techniques and themes would be analyzed by comparing Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) and Lawrence’s two poem - How Beastly the Bourgeois is (1929) and Bavarian Gentians (1923). Eliot and Lawrence both display modernistic aspects. Modern middle class of England‚ so called Bourgeois is strongly criticized in Lawrence’s poem
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English composition‚ mathematics‚ in the running and cricket. From this moment‚ and in spite of the big interest that he shows to the religion‚ the anticlerical jokes of his father bring him to ask themselves questions‚ which he brings back to us in Dedalus‚ on the order and the justice that embody his Jesuit teachers. The end of year 1891 is marked by new financial difficulties for John Joyce‚ which entails the retreat of James de Clongowes Wood. After two years‚ studying alone‚ James enters because
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“A Love Song for Bobby Long” written by Grayson Capps and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” written by TS Eliot remind the world of men who struggle with the demons of life. The little voices in your head saying “I don’t think you can do that.” These voices cause you to doubt yourself and your talents. They take the life out of you‚ and cause you to wonder if you even have a purpose here on earth. Now let’s take a deeper look into these poems and closely analyze their similarities and differences
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successful unity of society through its illumination of the feelings of disillusionment and rebellion. This illumination and unification is shown in a number of texts composed at the time‚ including; Preludes‚ The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot. T.S. Eliot’s Preludes portrays a futile existence in a desolate world‚ and a disillusioned protagonist‚ who sees the world for what it is. It was written between the years of 1910 and 1911 and can be viewed as a reflection of British
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within the self. Similarly Adams writes that Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a text concerned with the body and ‘the idea of self as a body’ . However Joyce provides a penetrating insight into the life of the main character Stephen Dedalus who accepts the limitations of the physical body as a means to transcend from his present state. In my essay I aim to examine Beckett and Joyce’s differential treatment of the body as they underline the physical struggles of two protagonists.
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about his love for the ocean and the mermaids‚ which refers to someone in his past that he possibly loved. By the mermaids not singing to him it portrays his pasts experiences with women and how they treat him with no respect which ultimately leaves Prufrock feeling unworthy and unwanted. Then as he feels remorse again he brings up his age with speaking about his white hair and then refers back to the ocean where he begins to talk about something cheerful that human voices will wake us‚ which shows that
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