In the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot‚ the main character‚ J. Alfred Prufrock is seen as an anti-hero. His character and identity comes through strongly in the poem as a shy and introverted man who is socially inept‚ extremely self conscious‚ lacking in self confidence and wallowing in self-pity‚ yet desiring for people to notice him. The composer shows this through his use of allusions‚ powerful imagery to create vignettes of Prufrock’s life and the form of the poem as
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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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T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland‚ whilst being laden with rich cultural references and allusions‚ is a confronting representation of re-establishment and rejuvenation across the entirety of a European post-war society. Eliot addresses the cyclical nature of life and death‚ encompassed by carefully crafted language and structure designed to disorientate the reader. The reader is offered an interpretation of human behaviour which is akin to all beings across the cohort of society‚ regardless of ethnicity
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industrial society and challenging traditional cultural customs. T.S Eliot has been one of the most daring innovators of twentieth-century poetry‚ and believed that poetry should aim at a representation of the complexities of modern civilization. His poem ‘Preludes’ looks at the decay of the city as a result of ritual‚ futility and the effects of technological advancement through Eliot’s harsh description of the city and its people. Eliot effectively distinguishes his thoughts of the modernist era‚ instantly
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How Far Does T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Present a Realistic Picture of London After the First World War? Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land is unarguably a poem about the decline of western civilization in general. It is for this reason that the reader would not expect to find many specific references to time and place. Surprisingly‚ however‚ there are a large number of particular references to London – though‚ interestingly‚ only one to the recently-concluded World War One: the demobilisation
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me assist you by revealing my feelings and analysis on TS Eliot’s issues and concerns. Since I’ve only studied ’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’‚ ’Portrait of a Lady’‚ ’Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ’Preludes’‚ I’ll be relating my explanation to those poems. The human conditions that Eliot represents are trivial‚ struggle‚ pessimism‚ depersonalisation‚ despair and desolation. His views of women are misogynistic and being involved in sordid activities. Eliot’s poems deal with the psychological
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When she was 13‚ in 1949‚ she and her sister were sent to a Mount School‚ a Quaker boarding school in York. She did not like boarding school‚ citing her need to be alone and her difficulty in making friends. So far she was not a forthcoming child. A. S. Byatt declares that she felt “panic” about the outside world‚ and says that she didn’t speak to anyone willingly until she became about sixteen. “I had a strong sense of not knowing how to behave socially‚ handed down from my mother’s anxiety about
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The song I have chosen for my song explication is “I Won’t Give Up by Jason Mraz” which depicts a concept to the play‚ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ how beautiful each admirer thinks their love is. A quote from the song relating to this concept is “When I look into your eyes‚ It’s like watching the night sky‚ or a beautiful sunrise (Mraz 1-3)”. This is saying when Mraz looks into the girl’s eyes‚ it’s like watching the night sky because it is peaceful. Mraz compares his love’s eyes to
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Memory and Desire both influences an individual’s reaction to events both past and present‚ therefore positioning one’s expectation of the future Both Memory and desire influence an individual’s response to the nature of events of the past and the present. Like the ebb and flow of the waves seen in 30 Years in the Wilderness Memories also comes back and forth in one’s mind. Both memory and desire shape and inform our human reactions. Memories connect individuals with the past and develop them
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isolation is presented and explored by Sebastian Faulks and T.S Eliot in ‘Engleby’ and ‘Selected Poems’. Throughout both ‘Engleby’ and ‘Selected Poems’ there is a prevailing sense of ‘apprehension of the tenuousness of human existence’ which is evident in the protagonists’ confining inability to communicate with the world around them‚ as seen in Prufrock’s agonised call‚ ‘so how should I presume?’. ‘The Wasteland’ was written by Eliot to ‘address the fragmentation and alienation characteristic of
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