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    In T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” Eliot develops the character‚ J. Alfred Prufrock using allusions to other works of literature such as‚ Dante’s Inferno‚ Marvel’s “His Coy Mistress‚”. In this way‚ Eliot sets forth a psychological comparison to assist the reader in understanding of Prufrock’s psyche and existentialist attitude toward life. Dante’s Inferno is his allegorical depiction of hell that depicts hell as a set of nine levels (or circles) closely aligned to the

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    is referred to in the "s" sounds‚ which also end the phrase "profit and loss." The image of rising and falling appears again in line 316 as the body rises and falls beneath the sea‚ and this idea of rising and falling is linked now with the life cycle: As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool (316-318). The idea here is reminiscent of the belief that a drowning person’s life passes before his or her eyes. Eliot presents an image of this

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    The Hippopotamus T.S Eliot In T.S. Eliot’s poem‚ The Hippopotamus‚ the first six lines of the poem‚ we can see the description of a hippopotamus. This Hippo is much like the human race because‚ we are simply made out of “flesh and blood.” Eliot utilizes religious reference in order to give us his point of view about religion and to picture them through the hippopotamus.      ‚ Eliot uses anaphora to show the importance of baptism and to be accepted as a Child of God. He also wants to explain

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    Easter 1916 : William Butler Yeats - Summary and Critical Analysis       Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats is a poem about an Irish immature revolutionary plan which became unsuccessful to overthrow the British reign in Ireland. About fifteen hundred people participated in this revolution to seize the government office building of Dublin on Easter morning‚ but three hundred of them were killed on the spot‚ and more than two hundred people were taken as prisoner and tortured. In Easter 1916‚ poet

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    Alfred Prufrock‚” Eliot represents age and time through parallelism and situational irony to show that one must not squander his opportunities in life. Parallelism is prevalent throughout the poem and is used to present age in a nagging‚ incessant way. The phrase “there will

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    From How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster Notes by Marti Nelson 1. Every Trip is a Quest (except when it’s not): a. A quester b. A place to go c. A stated reason to go there d. Challenges and trials e. The real reason to go—always self-knowledge 2. Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion a. Whenever people eat or drink together‚ it’s communion b. Not usually religious c. An act of sharing and peace d. A failed meal carries negative connotations 3. Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires

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    texts. Consider this statement by exploring the relationship between text and context in at least two poems you studied by Eliot. Eliot’s modernist poems‚ Preludes and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ depict the effects of industrialisation on societal consciousness‚ through lenses coloured by war and suffering. Through the eyes of two alienated individuals‚ Eliot suggests that life is bereft of meaning‚ and that to live is not to engage with God and morality‚ but with nothing at all.

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    Thomas Stearns Eliot born on September 26 1888 lived in St. Louis‚ Missouri the seventh child of Charlotte Stearns and Henry Eliot. He attended a plethora of colleges ‚ but received his degrees at Harvard University earning his Bachelor’s in June of 1909‚ his Masters in February of 1911 and Ph.D courses in October 1911 through May 1914. In the year 1915-1916 he went to Oxford University and spent time publishing his doctoral dissertation in philosophy of F.H Bradley in 1964. Later on‚ he focused

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    ‚ 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

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    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

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