written by T.S. Eliot depicts a worrisome older man‚ contemplating his life letting his insecurities restrict him from living. The heroine in “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” Prufrock‚ his call to adventure begins when he decides to open up the subconscious to see and understand what it is that makes us human. The opening line of the poem haunting and eerie‚ “Let us go then‚ you and I /When the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherized upon a table” (Eliot) although the people
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trapped is seen in the characters in the poetry of the early twentieth century. While some poets wrote about being trapped by love‚ life or loneliness‚ for others it was based on their gender or the color of their skin. Edgar Lee Masters and T.S. Eliot both wrote poems about life‚ either living it to the fullest or failing to embrace
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preserve the obsolete revolutionized language in various forms for it was felt that language could not convey the complete meaning- “That’s not all‚ that’s not what I meant at all” - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Writers such as Eliot‚ James Joyce‚ Virginia Woolf‚ W.B Yeats‚ Ezra Pound and so on were among the money who spurned the idea of realism and hence introduced a variety of literary tactic and devices. The Modernists drowned the Victorian bourgeois morality
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“The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’ clock. The burnt –out ends of smoky days.” A poem is a complete expressive of the mood of the poet‚ and Thomas Stearns Eliot is of no exception to it‚ when he is certainly throughout his poem is deeply in a mood of gloom and despair‚ as far as society is concerned. He is considered to be one of the most distinguished poets of the twentieth century who brought a very modern touch to his poetry with plenty of symbolism
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month where everything should be glooming‚ pleasing‚ and living‚ however it is not. In "the Waste Land" by Thomas Sterns Eliot‚ he states‚ "April is the cruellest month." This is a metaphor which in my situation reflects the truth. There are many reasons as to why people prefer to live outside of the city but work in the heart of it. I look forward and try to imagine what T.S. Eliot would think if he saw these city streets. In his book‚ "the Waste Land‚" it is forced into our imagination that the world
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new thing for poetry. Donne’s writing style of this poem had a strong influence on his contemporaries. "It was studied by Dr. Samuel Johnson in the 18th century‚ then by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the 19th century‚ and had a big influence on T.S. Eliot in the 20th century amongst other poets" (1389-1390). Low did not consider John Donne a
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Eliot uses many poetry techniques to convey a sense of urban alienation throughout this poem. These techniques include description and imagery‚ contrast and irony‚ rhetorical questions and rhyming. These also reflect the spirit of the early twentieth century. Straight from the introduction of the poem‚ Eliot already starts to utilise imagery to describe the emotions and themes that the poem conveys. The line ‘Like a patient etherised upon a table’ suggests that there is something wrong with the
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rise of new ones. For the empires that fall‚ they either start again or perish to be only remembered by stories. While together man may prosper‚ by themselves they are in shambles‚ forever alone only to be distinguished by their cultural identities. Eliot portrays the desolate empire and the lost man by saying‚ “Fishing‚ with the arid plain behind me / Shall I at least set my lands in order? / London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down” (424-426). These lines imply the nearing death of
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Title: Eliot claimed to have made up the title‚ "The Hollow Men" from combining "The Hollow Land"‚ the title of a romance by William Morris with Kipling’s title‚ "The Broken Men". Many scholars believe this to be one of Ol’ Possum’s many false trails‚ instead believing it comes from a mention of ’hollow men’ in Julius Caesar or any of several references to Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz as hollow in some way (a ’hollow sham’‚ ’hollow at the core’). The title immediately presents us with the first of many
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institutions (government‚ religion)‚ and the disbelief of any absolute truths. Things which were considered traditional were now viewed as outdated. By some‚ T.S. Eliot’s poem is considered the first of the modernist literary movement; it... ...explore[s] the peculiarly Modernist alienation of the individual in society to a point where internal emotional alienation occurs... Georg Simmel‚ a sociologist‚ summarizes societal concerns during this time: The deepest problems of modern life derive from the
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