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    Prufrock and Modernism

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    Prufrock and Modernism Modernist literature is the representation of the societal crises and disorientation which was resultant of the burgeoning industrialisation and mechanisation of society in the 20th century. This instigated an evolution of thought which challenged the preconceived notions and boundaries enforced by society and gave rise to new perceptions in relation to the world. Modernism is marked by experimentation‚ and in particular the manipulation of form. This is evident in T.S Eliot’s

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    The Mistress

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    Filipino films nowadays are too mainstream‚ for action‚ comedy‚ horror and even romance themed movies. In the movie The Mistress‚ John Lloyd Cruz (as JD)‚ a handsome rich boy‚ whose father owns a telecom company‚ fell inlove with Bea Alonzo (as Sari)‚ a typical Filipina citizen who struggles to work for her family. Later in the movie‚ it was revealed that Sari is a mistress of JD’s father (as Rico)‚ and so the story revolved within that conflict. As a Filipino watcher‚ it was quite unusual to see

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    Modernism in Prufrock

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    as one of the twentieth century’s major poets; his poem ‘the love song of j. Alfred Prufrock’ has gone down as one of the major works of the Modernist movement. ‘Prufrock’ is a dramatic monologue that follows a man striving for meaning in a suddenly industrial modern road‚ typical themes of modernism. The isolation and displacement Prufrock exemplifies throughout the poem reflects author Eliot’s own struggles in the new modern society. Eliot through his poems exposes the alienation and displacement

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    poem: J. Alfred Prufrock‚ the speaker of this poem‚ is a lonely middle-aged man who is still looking for love. He admits to himself that no-one would love him back even if he would to try. And he already feels like that he’s alienated for society and it has made him into a lonely person. Also‚ he tends to avoid doing things out of the ordinary because it would disturb his daily routine. And he really like fantasy because it doesn’t make him uncomfortable and he can always escape to his imaginations—unlike

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    Advice to Prufrock (A discussion of advice to Prufrock) In life‚ you need to make the best of what you got. Try to live life to the fullest and make memories with friends and enjoy yourself. Believe in yourself and do great things‚ so you do not have a boring life. Have fun with what you got while you still are living and still have the ability to. In T.S. Eliot’s‚ The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ the advice I would give Prufrock is to live life‚ make friends‚ and believe in yourself. Life is

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    Prufrock Imagination

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    as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the story of a single character‚ a timid‚ middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to himself. The epigraph‚ a dramatic speech taken from Dante’s "Inferno‚" provides a key to Prufrock’s nature. Like Dante’s character Prufrock is in "hell‚" in this case a hell of his own feelings. He is both the "you and I" of line one‚ pacing the city’s grimy streets on his lonely walk. He observes the

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    Prufrock Allusions

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    (Dante 61-66). This is an epigraph to the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. These lines are from Dante’s Inferno which is about Dante going to Hell and asking a question to a false counselor‚ Guido da Montefeltro. The false counselor decides to answer Dante’s question because the answer will be kept in Hell with Dante. This epigraph makes an allusion to what happens in the poem‚ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock‚ the speaker of this poem‚ wants to ask fundamental questions of

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    Hamlet to Prufrock

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    Tiffany Li Ms. Hall ENG 4U1 December 13th‚ 2010 A Life Without Love‚ is No Life at All As the flawed in protagonists of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and T.S Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ both Hamlet and Prufrock live in a times of disharmony. Feelings of passion are controlled by realistic tendencies and neither allows sensitivity to rule their order. This underlying journey or quest for female contact causes both characters to live meaningless lives eventually leading to harsh

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    Douglass shows in his writing that he truly does care for his mistress‚ but is upset with her. Frederick really does care about her‚ but upset because he is turning into a monster. First‚ he talks about her in a good way; also he describes how she treats him like a human at first; finally his mistress becomes violent and a monster‚ which made him more determined to read. First‚ Douglass talks about his mistress in a good way. In the beginning of his writing he says she is a kind

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    Donne’s "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and Marvell’s "To His Coy Mistress" are identical and contradictory in many respects. Although "A Valediction" concentrates on the comfort of love on parting and "To His Coy Mistress" contemplates about sexual love and the briefness of life‚ both exemplify characteristics of metaphysical poetry. Metaphysical poetry is about the profound areas of experience‚ especially about love‚ romantic and sensual‚ and‚ to a lesser extent‚ about pleasure‚ learning‚

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