Dr. Richard Clarke LITS3001 Notes 09B 1 T. S. ELIOT “HAMLET AND HIS PROBLEMS” (1919) Eliot offers‚ as we have seen‚ what has come to be called an ‘impersonal theory of poetic creation.’ Eliot would not have denied either that poets have feelings or that poetry inspires certain feelings in the reader. He offers‚ rather‚ an account‚ centered around his notion of the objective correlative‚ of how such feelings enter the poem in the first place that differs significantly from the expressive model
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could be present and the way the images‚ fragments and memorable phrases build a portrait of the character. This poem can be read in several ways and have different meanings. The following analysis is focused on Prufrock the character‚ as opposed to Eliot the Poet. It is very important to take into consideration the era in which this poem was published‚ as at that time there was nothing similar to this poem. The way the author portrays an inner monologue‚ conscious of his surroundings‚ is what later
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Response) When thinking of a typical love story a reader expects compassion and romance‚ but in T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ romance is not the topic of discussion. The backdrop of the poem is a typical London‚ England day with numerous travels through the seamless foggy streets early 1900’s London. The mystery or puzzle through the poem tend to transpire with cleverly diverted unanswered question from the narrator that somehow get overlooked
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TS Eliot’s Prufrock The ironic character of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚" an early poem by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) in the form of a dramatic monologue‚ is introduced in its title. Eliot is talking‚ through his speaker‚ about the absence of love‚ and the poem‚ so far from being a "song‚" is a meditation on the failure of romance. The opening image of evening (traditionally the time of love making) is disquieting‚ rather than consoling or seductive‚ and the evening "becomes a patient" (Spender
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of the auditors presence only from clues in the discourse of the single speaker. The auditor never speaks‚ but we know of what he or she says and does when the speaker tells us. 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‚
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At the beginning of T. S. Eliot’ s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ there stands an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno‚ Canto 27. This epigraph unifies the text and brings‚ through its imagery and context‚ a deeper understanding of Eliot’s poem. Prufrock represents both of the characters in this section of the Inferno‚ corresponding to Dante in the first section and Guido da Montefeltro in the second and third. Dante represents the antithesis of Prufrock as well as the ideal that Prufrock strives
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was a publisher‚ essayist and most importantly‚ a well-known poet. He was born on 26 September 1888 in St. Louis‚ Missouri in the United States. Even though he was of American origin‚ nowadays he plays an extremely important role in British literature since he obtained British citizenship in 1927. As a young intellectual looking for his place in the world‚ life brought him to Oxford in 1914. Although he liked Oxford‚ because of his restless spirit he was not satisfied there
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Cited: Eliot‚ T.S. “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” The Norton Introduction to Literature: Shorter 10th Edition. Eds. Alison Booth and Velly J. Mays. New York: Norton‚ 2010. 1015-1019. “Oedipus the King.” The Norton Introduction to Literature: Shorter 10th
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titled‚ “The Burial of the Dead” by employing Eliot’s “theory of impersonality” and certain principles of New Criticism. It seeks to examine how Eliot subverts his personality and emerges as a catalyst in the Burial of the Death by using various element such as as paradox‚ unity of structure and contrastive imagery to ensure the organic unity of the poem. To Eliot‚ a poem or a work of art is thing in itself . Following The New Critics tradition of relying heavily on use of paradox‚ irony and ambiguity
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criticism‚ in his view‚ was ’to know the best that is known and thought in the world‚ and by in its turn making this known‚ to create a current of true and fresh ideas’‚ and he has influenced a whole school of critics including new critics such as T. S. Eliot‚ F. R. Leavis‚ and Allen Tate. He was the founder of the sociological school of criticism‚ and through his touchstone method introduced scientific objectivity to critical evaluation by providing comparison and analysis as the two primary tools of
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