‚ T.S. Eliot appeared on the scene of 20th century English poetry as a wonderful innovator with these lines of his The Love-song of J. Alfred Prufrock on the pages of the Poetry magazine in 1915: “Let us go‚ then‚ you and I When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table". These lines immediately revolutionized the intellectual climate of English poetry. Eliot initiated a new brand of poetry of the city‚ poetry essentially cerebral‚ impersonal‚ predominantly
Premium T. S. Eliot Modernism The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Dramatic Monologues: According to M.H. Abrahms‚ dramatic monologue is a poetic form‚ "a lengthy speech by a single person"‚ addressing a silent listener‚ intended to convey his or her inner thoughts and emotions. It can be rewritten in jargonised terms as ’a cross or hybrid of the genres of drama and lyric’. A lyric poem is ‘any fairly short poem‚ consisting of the utterance by a single speaker‚ who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception‚ thought‚ and feeling’. Though
Premium Poetry Drama T. S. Eliot
attempted to learn science for his sake and how he tried to learn literature for hers. She was more successful and he less‚ as he explains to Peter‚ “She was studying T.S. Eliot‚ and‚ compared to science‚ Eliot is very complicated” (Murphy). A similar perplexity (or prejudice‚ for that matter) dovetails literary scholarship on Eliot‚ more specifically in relation to The Waste Land. This paper is not an attempt to make things easier or to determine a synoptically coherent logic behind The Waste Land
Premium T. S. Eliot Ezra Pound The Waste Land
September 2012 Prufrock’s Melancholy “For I have known them all already‚ known them all:” (Eliot 49). To me this line defines the mood for the entire poem‚ it is such a simple statement‚ yet at the same time a deeply powerful and complex one. What is there left to do‚ what great adventures left to take‚ or great deeds left to be done. As Prufrock becomes and old man “I grow old…I grow old” (Eliot 119) he is searching for anything left in his life‚ some meaning‚ some purpose‚ something to inspire
Premium T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Meaning of life
Alfred Prufrock‚ written by T.S. Eliot‚ is a truly depressing poem. The poem concerns with a character (Prufrock) that can see and understand the values in life – love‚ joy‚ companionship‚ and courageousness – but is unable to act on his longings. The poem shows constant struggles of Prufrock’s uselessness. The worst part about his uselessness is that he is conscious of it. T.S. Eliot uses the theme of Paralysis‚ the incapacity to act‚ throughout the whole poem. Eliot uses the theme of paralysis to
Premium T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
work shows the thumbprints of other poets that help to influence this distinctive style. One of those writers was T.S. Eliot. By time Plath was coming into her won as a poet‚ Eliot was already a legend and was arguably the most important English poet of the 20th century. It would be easy to see why Plath‚ aspiring to be a great poet herself‚ would be greatly influenced by Eliot. One of the ways we can see Eliot’s influence on Plath is in her use of surreal imagery mixed with opposing ideas with
Premium Sylvia Plath Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Prufrock’s Unattainable Desires T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” describes the inner feelings of an isolated man whose desire for a loving and communicative relationship with a female is unrelenting. Eliot presents J. Alfred Prufrock as an older man who struggles with knowing how to communicate his feelings toward females in fear of being judged. Prufrock’s fear of alienation and lack of self confidence contribute to his difficulty in fulfilling his need to be understood
Premium T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Poetry
this void with material things such as wealth‚ fame‚ friends‚ sex‚ and work‚ individuals still lack fulfilment. Often when people become cognizant that the material world will not satisfy their longing‚ they turn to spiritual comfort. The poets T.S Eliot‚ Philip Larkin‚ and Matthew Arnold comment on humanity’s tendency to loiter with the notion of God and otherworldliness. Respectively‚ through their poems “The Journey of the Magi‚” “Church Going‚” and “Dover Beach‚” the poets publicize their
Premium T. S. Eliot Religion Human
December 2011 "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot and The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald but have similar themes and were both published in 1925. These pieces of literature illustrate two similar opinions on the same time period. There is a parallel between the two works that can easily be shown. The reoccurring themes of senselessness‚ unattainable fantasies‚ and facade appear and both works and can be cleanly displayed. "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot states in lines three trough six "We are the
Premium F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby
the hollowing of mankind generates a loss of substance‚ purpose‚ and will result in the annihilation of humanity. With the aftermath of World War I‚ men disregard religion and turn to modernistic attitudes— they feel internally empty. Specifically‚ Eliot’ hollow men parallel lifeless effigies‚ due to their heads being “filled with straw” (6). Here‚ the speaker associates mannequin-like characteristics of scarecrows to the hollow men. These men lack their true insides; they are stuffed with meaningless
Premium T. S. Eliot Religion Poetry