In the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S Eliot imagery plays an important part in this poem. Prufrock is full of imagery that sets the tone of this poem. Prufrock is a model of a person representing the cultural‚ moral state that Eliot considers to be the same as his time. Prufrock fits the profile of a late Victorian man that suffering from mental depression. His life seems to be boring with the routine he have. He shows a lot of imagery in this poem. He uses imagery with the fog
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about you for the moment” (Eliot 2014‚ p. 132) he says to celia during her session with him in his office. Eliot also draws on the symbolic order of an occupation that “society has instituted for hearing confession (priests‚ doctors‚ therapists)”(Visker 2010‚ p. 201)‚ each character comes to Dr. Reilly in turn to confess secrets and emotions to him and seek his guidance to better themselves or to ‘repent’‚ Celia herself confesses to have paid him a visit “in desperation” (Eliot 2014‚ p. 131). He gives
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was Ezra Pound. Pound‚ born in Ohio in 1885‚ completed two years of college at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a degree from Hamilton College in 1905. His work had a major influence in famous poets such as Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot. After graduation‚ Pound taught for a short time at Wabash College in Indiana and then left for Europe‚where he lived most of his life. His first sum of poetry‚ “A Lume Spento”‚ (In which he carried copies to distributed when he moved to
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text. OR (ii) “The novel Wuthering Heights portrays a clash between two worlds represented by Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.” Discuss this view of the novel‚ supporting your answer by reference to the text. B SILAS MARNER – George Eliot (i) “The story of Silas Marner has the magic of a fairy-tale‚ which leaves the reader feeling good about people.” Write a response to this view of the novel‚ supporting your answer by reference to the text. OR (ii) “Godfrey Cass is not perfect‚ but
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Marina‚ a poem by T.S. Eliot Posted on September 7‚ 2012 by Morgan Mussell One of best educational experiences I ever had was a class called “Yeats and Eliot” that I took as a college sophomore. I’ve been reading and rereading his work ever since. The name of this blog‚ “The first gate(s)” comes from the opening of Eliot’s long poem‚ “The Four Quartets‚” which matches the scope and depth of the work of any poet who ventures into ineffable realms. T.S. Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell‚ 1934. Public
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(Full and Empty at The same Time) Three messages from The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot In the beginning of the poem The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot starts off with an allusions to help him contrast the past with the present. Eliot’s allusions created a distinctive‚ dreamlike world for a reader to explore. Also they reflected his theory of poetry‚ this story doesn’t reflect T.S Eliot’s life‚ but a bunch of past literature was a key source in writing his story. Three main messages from The Hollow Men
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T.S. Eliot presents modernist concerns of the early twentieth century by portraying the constraints of society and as a result reveals his critical view on human conditions. In both poems‚ ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ and ‘Preludes’‚ Eliot explores humanity’s uncertainty of self and the degeneration of society into one that lacks meaningful communication‚ and to a significant extent has been reinforced by Winterson and the other perspectives. In order to portray the thoroughly modern world
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thrill in the whole poem. The first image created in the minds of the reader is that of a silent evening. The next is that of a patient etherised on a table. The Romantics had the notion that the “evening” is healing in nature. It nourishes the soul. Eliot breaks this notion by associating
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that they are fervently denying their guilt‚ as anyone ashamed of something well generally deny it more than usual. Yet this excuse of passive planning could never possibly emancipate them from a fate in purgatory. In the third part of the poem‚ Eliot introduces this desert-like landscape which the men currently inhabit and refers to it as "the twilight kingdom." The statement has direct ties to the Catholic belief in the levels of afterlife‚ where heaven is bright and stellar‚ and hell is dark
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people: “Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent” (Eliot 8-9). Also‚ Prufrock talks about how women talk in a schoolgirl way‚ name dropping to sound smart and to socialize with other people. For example‚ in lines 13 and 14: “In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo” (Eliot 13-14)‚ Eliot uses trochee and true rhyme to imply the women’s shallowness and how they try to just look
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