Modern Language Studies "Till Human Voices Wake Us and We Drown": Community in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Author(s): James C. Haba Reviewed work(s): Source: Modern Language Studies‚ Vol. 7‚ No. 1 (Spring‚ 1977)‚ pp. 53-61 Published by: Modern Language Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3194154 . Accessed: 18/03/2013 05:36 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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SL English 6 January 2015 Commentary on Hitler’s First Photograph by Wisława Szymborska The poet is Wisława Szymborska and the poem is written in third person omniscient. The literal meaning of the poem is that Hitler is just an ordinary child that is yet to become anything he wants to be. Keeping in mind that his impending future is not the brightest‚ Szymborska ironically represents Hitler as just another ordinary child. The title‚ Hitler’s first photograph goes to symbolise how Hitler looked like
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Kyle Mootry Charles DeShong American Lit. II 4/24/2013 T.S. Eliot is thoroughly viewed as one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century‚ and one of the most important writers of the modernist era. He hated traditional realism by responding against Romantic poetry. His collection of work was extremely experimental and he repeatedly deals with the views of symbolism and imagism in his poetry. America in the early part of the twentieth century was changing quickly and becoming more
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The clinician‚ Mrs. May‚ began with the first movement of the Holberg Suite‚ Prelude‚ composed by Edvard Grieg. In the beginning of the piece‚ there is a segment consisting of a rhythm with an eighth note followed by two sixteenth notes. Mrs. May decided to have the orchestra play the G major scale with the same rhythm. She wanted to focus on improving the group’s tempo‚ rhythm‚ and markings for the piece. After playing the scale in the ideal tempo‚ the orchestra was able to successfully incorporate
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Eliot challenges his audience to consider the state of his character’s subconscious living within a corrupted society. Thomas Stearns Eliot’s poems‚ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock published in 1915‚ and Preludes published in 1917‚ resonate the decay and alienation of Eliot’s characters and civilization. Eliot employs various poetic techniques to challenge the reader to explore social fragmentation of the human psyche and the futility of an industrialization society. Eliot explores seclusion
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Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot - MonkeyNotes by PinkMonkey.com PinkMonkey® Literature Notes on . . . Sample MonkeyNotes Note: this sample contains only excerpts and does not represent the full contents of the booknote. This will give you an idea of the format and content. Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot MonkeyNotes Edited by Diane Sauder PinkMonkey.com‚ Inc. Copyright © 1997-1999‚ All Rights Reserved. Distribution without the written consent of PinkMonkey.com‚ Inc
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seen as a way of advancing to the next stage and improving the cultural values of the past. However‚ for T.S. Eliot‚ modernity had ruptured its connection to a more vital past and was as a result impoverished. History is instead characterized by regression and ruptures. In his essay‚ “Tradition and the Individual Talent‚” his idea of tradition shows retrogression instead of progression. Eliot argues that “the whole literature of Europe from Homer” (49) is an archive of works affecting authors in the
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’Oh keep the Dog far hence‚ that’s friend to men‚ ’Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again! ’You! Hypocrite lecteur! – mon semblable‚ - mon frère!’ T.S. Eliot‚ “The Burial of the Dead”‚ The Waste Land‚ lines 60-76. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is a Modernist piece of literature. Combining “traditional content” and radical style‚ Eliot has captured the tension between past and present. For him‚ the past is at once nostalgic‚ yet responsible for the present shared post-war “sense of desolation
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T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot was born to a very remarkable New England family on September 26‚ 1888‚ in St. Louis‚ Missouri. His father‚ Henry Ware‚ was a very successful businessman and his mother‚ Charlotte Stearns Eliot‚ was a poetess. While visiting Great Britain in 1915‚ World War I started and Eliot took up a permanent residency there. In 1927‚ he became a British citizen. While living in Britain‚ Eliot met and married Vivienne Haigh -Wood and at first everything was wonderful between
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perspective creates a personal atmosphere of the speaker’s uncertainty and hardship of the journey of spiritual growth‚ and allows the reader to fully experience and empathise with the difficulties that the Magi and Eliot have endured in their respective journeys. The first two stanzas specifically depict the difficulty and hardship of the magi’s journey. The imagery in ‘the very dead of winter’ evokes a sense of death and despair‚ and highlights the hopelessness that the magi feel in their lives
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