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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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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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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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
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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
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