inner fogginess and the foggy evening is conveyed in the image of “The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window panes/ The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window panes” (15-16). In the poem‚ Prufrock is constantly depreciating himself; Eliot highlights this through the use of animal imagery. His feeling of helplessness and impotence is emphasized after Prufrock imagines himself‚ "sprawling on a pin‚/When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall" (57-58). The poem moves through a series
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chemical reaction cannot take place‚ but the platinum remains unaffected. In the same way the mind of the poet remains unaffected during his poetic composition. So Eliot says‚ "poetry is not a turning loose of emotion‚ but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality‚ but an escape from personality". T.S. Eliot states‚ "The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done".
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historical context of a particular poem Poem: T. S. Eliot‚ ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The context of any given text whether poetry‚ novels or a movie is always integral to its understanding. Social and historical context of not only the given text‚ but the writer’s context and reader’s context play an important role in the interpretation and understanding of the major ideas‚ issues‚ values and beliefs within the text. T.S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot was one of the twentieth century’s major poets
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dramatic monologue that presents an inner conflict between the need to be loved and the failure to satisfy that need”. Waldorf believes that Prufrock and Eliot are looking at their life and existence with great regret and sadness and with it‚ controls how this makes the reader feel. Within the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ T.S Eliot writes about an inner conflict between the need to feel loved and the fear of failing to do so. “Prufrock’s Defenses and Our Response” by Leon Waldoff‚
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a beautifully written‚ but yet somewhat sad poem by poet T. S. Eliot. It tells the inner thoughts of a lonely man who is seeking love of a woman‚ but his own fear of rejection causes him to stray from following through with the action. The poem title itself is very ironic because the character himself is fearful‚ anti-heroic and unromantic. For someone who is in love‚ wants to find love‚ or wants to be in love they have to be courageous and willing to take whatever
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they wear. They are both characters that are in love with a person that they cannot openly admit this to. They both ponder and wonder whether or not they dare to tell her. And indeed there will be a time to wonder‚ "Do I dare?" and "Do I dare?" (Eliot 666). Neither of them could bear the thought of her not returning their love so they hide it and keep it quiet. Though Gatsby does end up admitting his feelings for her‚ he spends each year after he met her thinking about her‚ and then months across
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How are issues of faith or belief represented in T.S.Eliot ’s The Waste Land? Faith and belief‚ or the lack of it‚ has always played a major part in T.S. Eliot’s canon; perhaps more than any other Modernist writer‚ Eliot reflects the zeitgeist that was described by Spears Brooker (1994) as “characterized by a collapse of faith in human innate goodness and in the inevitability of progress.” (Brooker Spears‚ 1994‚ p.61) To this end‚ this paper looks at how such issues are represented in Eliot’s early
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In “The Hollow Men” and the story excerpt “The Things They Carried” both authors‚ T.S. Eliot and Tim O’Brien‚ utilize similar techniques such as imagery and tone‚ while having a different purpose for writing. In the poem “The Hollow Men‚” T.S. Eliot apples imagery and tone to help his audience apprehend how life without a purpose proves to be a waste when the world’s final hours are close. As for in the excerpt‚ “The Things They Carried”‚ the author uses his techniques to demonstrate the toll that
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Prelude IV is the last installment of a four part series of poems from legendary poet T.S Eliot. Like most of Eliot’s writing‚ including the three other installments of the preludes‚ Prelude IV criticizes the modern world and the state of humanity living in it. The goal of this essay is to interpret the specific criticisms within the poem as well as analyse its structure as well as its semantics. Structural Analysis Interpretation As previously stated‚ the core message of the entire Preludes
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Modernists aimed to reflect reality in ways more ‘real’ than conventional literature. The modernism movement was prompted by a widespread disillusionment in society that resulted from contextual events. This allowed an altered view of the world as fractured and chaotic‚ especially due to paralysis and alienation in modern society. This newly perceived reality is reflected through techniques of fragmentation in modernist works such as James Joyce’s short story “Araby” and T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love
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