T.S..Eliot Essay

The initial conclusion one can draw from the critique of modern culture by both Kafka and Eliot in their portrayals of modern man is that it is them placed in these settings and their literature is simply an outlet for said critique. The modernist sentiments expressed in their works were, in part, universally held opinions amongst literary contemporaries of theirs and as such were not only a veritable representation of them coming to grips with the reality of the world around them, but also of…

Deception in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” The poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot, was one of Eliot’s first major poems that gave him national recognition. It is a satirical poem about the “difficult” task of talking to women. It follows the life and thoughts of the main character J. Alfred Prufrock as he ironically attends a party of high stature in a seemingly shallow location within a city comparable to London. He is self-conscious, and throughout the night…

They Don’t Need No Man The role of women from the realism time period to the modernism time period changed dramatically. In the realism period, women still have not gotten any equal rights, including voting, being in politics, and even being in any workplace. This caused many women to go against their husband or any other man. The stories in the realism time period that portray this is “The Revolt of Mother” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, and “A New England Nun” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins…

Hollow Men” was written by poet T.S. Eliot during the 1920s in London when World War I was taking place. “The Hollow Men” describes the world of godless despair without the promise of salvation. T.S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was educated at Harvard University then later attended school at Sorbonne in Paris, France. He later went on the marry an Englishwoman named Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot who was a governess and writer at the time. Eliot then went on to…

house, he recognizes that Kurtz “lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts” suggesting that “he was hollow at the core” (67). Kurtz, like the hollow men who are “behaving as the wind behaves” in T.S. Eliot’s poem, is driven by no force other than his lusts. The men in T.S. Eliot’s poem move like the wind, with no clear direction but simply where the wind takes them, just as Kurtz moves with no clear purpose other than where his lusts drive him. Greed, anger, and lust drive him…

T.S Eliot wrote a poem, “Preludes,” which could be a critic of modernity as well as industrialism. Furthermore, the suffering it brings. This is included by first describing the setting in which the poem takes place on line 6 Eliot writes, “The grimy scraps,” and line 7, “Of withered leaves about your feet,” show it. Eliot uses words like grimy and withered to show a setting that is bleak. Then, in the third stanza of the poem Eliot switches to a second person point of view. That means the…

“The Waste Land” is a wonderfully complex work by T.S. Eliot. In this work Eliot illuminates ideas in “The Waste Land” by comparing and contrasting events happening there to events that have happened in the past. One of the myths we see echoed throughout the story as a reoccurring, central theme to the work is the myth of Philomela. Eliot depicts an image of human stagnation in his work, which can be compared to the unfruitfulness that comes from the rape Philomela story and the loveless central…

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…

Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot tells a story of regret, love, and life. J. Alfred Prufrock has a hard time finding true love due to the fact that he has no idea what to do with the short amount of time that he has in life. It isn’t until the end that he realizes he’s getting older and he has wasted his life doing nothing for himself. T.S. Eliot uses Literary Devices in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” to express the meaning of life by using tone and imagery. T.S. Eliot wonders if he should…

In T.S. Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, a man begins to reflect upon the decisions in life that he put off; realizing that he’s simply out of time to fulfill his wishes to find a wife and create a family along with many other wants and dreams. In the poem, Eliot uses a series of imagery and metaphors to vividly portray the character and to keep the story interesting and flowing. The poem of Mr. Prufrock is a simple yet vastly complicated poem. It begins telling the story of him as…