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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Essay Outline Introduction Topic: Comparing the element Hamartia‚ to the central characters from “Hamlet‚” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” and “Agamemnon.” Thesis Statement: The central characters from “Hamlet‚” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” and “Agamemnon‚” embodies the element‚ Hamartia. Hamartia is commonly understood as a protagonist’s error or flaw that determinately leads to a chain of plot actions culminating in a reversal from their good fortune to bad. Their flaws evidently
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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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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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The question that lingers in the back of people’s minds‚ is how long they have before their “clock” comes to a stop. As people live their lives‚ day in and day out‚ their lives are constantly at risk‚ by the slightest things in life. As death is inevitable‚ people fear the unknown so people put their faith into religion. As religion gives people hope and comfort into believing in something. As William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1603‚ Shakespeare expresses the different perspectives of life and the
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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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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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Dedication by Czeslaw Milosz You whom I could not save pay attention to me. Try to comprehend this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another. I vow‚ there is in me no wizardry of words. I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree. What strengthened me‚ for you was lethal. You mixed up farewell to an epoch with the beginning of a new one‚ Inspiration of hatred with lyrical beauty‚ Blind force with accomplished shape. Here is the valley of shallow Polish rivers. And an immense
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T.S. Eliot as a dramatist Introduction American-English poet‚ playwright‚ and critic‚ a leader of the modernist movement in literature. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. His most famous work is THE WASTE LAND‚ written when he was 34. On one level this highly complex poem descibes cultural and spiritual crisis. "The point of view which I am struggling to attack is perhaps related to the metaphysical theory of the substantial unity of the soul: for my meaning is
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