T.S..Eliot Essay

Through unfitting diction, setting seems inappropriately compared in The Dumka by B.H. Fairfield . Generally, the disproportionate contradiction the moods is due to word choice is evident in the poem. When Fairfield writes, “quite still, backs rigid, hands in their laps, and look straight ahead at the yellow light” (Lines 5-7), the description of the couple differs radically with the light. To clarify, yellow light contains a warmer connotation, but the diction used to depict the people…

Humans often find themselves ignorant of time’s passage and the consequences of their earthly errors. Robert Penn Warren’s poem, “Evening Hawk,” explores this concept and presents the idea that nature, as represented by the hawk, possesses a harsh judgement of humanity and its mistakes. The opening of the poem introduces an image of a hawk to observe the passage of time and human fallacies. Warren’s use of vivid language, both literal and figurative, conveys the mood and meaning of the work as a…

not fit in because I did know what to say or how to act. Even though I was able to have fun with the rest of the children, I was afraid to do anything for fear of being laughed at. Similarly, in T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Eliot utilized an indecisive, inhibited man who struggled with his thoughts to illustrate his intellectual superiority over the rest of 20th century London and how he did not fit into modern society.…

The two poems ”Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?” by Sir John Suckling, and “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick, have some similarities and differences. Suckling’s poem is about a man who is being questioned about being so love sick. He is asked by an unknown person how being love sick is going to benefit anyone. It can be understood that this poem is stating that if he does not become open about loving someone, he will never benefit. Therefore, he needs to quit looking so…

“ ‘Oh. Pangloss. Pangloss! Martin. Martin! Oh. my dearest Cunegonde! What kind of a universe is this? ’ sighed Candide on board the Dutch ship. – ‘A really huffy and really detestable 1. ’ replied Martin. – ‘You have been to England. ’ said Candide. ‘Are they as mad at that place as in France? ’ – ‘It’s a different type of lunacy. ’ said Martin. ‘As you know. the two states are at war over a few estates of snow on the Canadian boundary line. and they are passing instead more on their lovely war…

The narrator of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” often changes tenses in the midst of describing experiences, which in turn leads him to contradict and weaken the credibility of his assertions. How do the shifts in tenses work with his temporal diction to characterize the nature of Prufrock’s wisdom? Prufrock appears to be temporally challenged, like Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, through his sudden changes of tense that occur throughout the poem. These shifts, often working to…

I agree that Ivan Bunin’s short story “Kasimir Stanislavovitch” uses a lot of dilapidated images. The author says concerning Kasimir that: "Everything else about him spoke of poverty and drunkenness: no cuffs, a dirty linen collar, an ancient tie, an inflamed and ravaged face, bright-blue watery eyes. His side-whiskers, dyed with a bad, brown dye, had an unnatural appearance. He looked tired and contemptuous." (Bunin, 11-12). Kasimir is a poor old alcoholic who has an unfavorable attire and an…

Dime- Store Lips Singer songwriter Ray LaMontagne sings my favorite and most cherished song. This is a song that I am very close to and one that I have sat down and played more times in a row than I can count. In the song “Empty” Ray LaMontagne sings from his troubled point of view expressing his feelings of sorrow and numbness. “Empty” is a song that speaks for my hindered ability to open up and speak out about the things that go through my mind on a daily basis and the consequences to my…

In the poem, Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson, the speaker is one the people in down town who used to admire Richard Cory. This is shown when the narrator says, “We people in the pavement looked at him” (2). Although the gender of that person is unknown, it is obvious who the speaker is in this poem. Besides, the raconteur is speaking about Richard Cory who used to be the most envied man in town until the point in which the speaker states, “[H]e was everything / To make us wish that we…

The Murder of Dreams Examine how Eliot utilizes literary devices to convey and enhance one of the themes of his poem. You may want to consider tone, diction, allusion and/ or imagery when creating your analysis. “The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” is a collection of fragmented depressing thoughts of a man, Prufrock with no self esteem. When one thinks of the title “The Love song” one often assumes the poem is based affection, and their one true love. “ The Love Song of J. Alfred…