Alfred

that come with it. Such struggles have caused men to do the impossible like cross oceans, travel the world, dance, sing, write, and, perhaps the most daring thing of them all, propose marriage. As seen in the poem by T.S Elliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, love and its complications have plagued humankind since centuries past. The poem describes Prufrock’s journey to an event in which he will ask someone an important question. Through his walk he is overcome by a multitude of…

Response Paper 2 S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" uses a modernist approach to describe the views of a man living with self-doubt, lack of confidence and an inability to make sense of the modern world. Eliot uses descriptive images and society as the setting to give a clear visual picture of man living in his own hell due to his extremely low self esteem and the way he feel he is viewed by others. He cannot give or receive love because he goes through life with a…

Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, T.S. Eliot’s main goal is to show us the harsh reality of the world we live in. As we read the poem, we are brought on a journey that opens our eyes to make us realize how empty modern life really is and how we are wasting our lives away. As we go on with our journey with J. Alfred Prufrock we are forced to realize that we live a dull, unimaginative existence that is strictly run by routine and habits. In the poem we follow the narrator, J. Alfred Prufrock,…

representation of inanimate natural objects that ascribes to them human capabilities, sensations, and emotions” (Abrams 203). This idea of emotion being projected onto the surrounding environment till nature becomes a kind of mirror is epitomised in Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘Mariana’. The poem, published in 1830, was inspired from a scene in William Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure, where Mariana waits for her lover to come. In Tennyson’s poem, Mariana’s yearning is unfulfilled and her…

T.S. Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock and Ernest Hemingway’s Jake Barnes struggle to find meaningful ways to live their lives. They stay on the sidelines, searching for a way to find happiness in an unforgiving modern world. While Jake Barnes does find some shred of success, J. Alfred Prufrock does not. J. Alfred Prufrock longs for happiness in his shallow life. He hopes that finding a woman to marry will provide him with a desirable, exuberant life. In Eliot's poem, Prufrock attends an upper-class…

Similarly to how sexual isolation pushes Prufrock farther away from people, Eliot uses nature images to increase the feeling of isolation. The nature imagery in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is stunningly beautiful; yet at the same time, it indicates isolation. In the third full stanza, a metaphor of a yellow fog that sounds like a cat is used. Cats only make themselves visible when they want something, otherwise they tend to be alone. Both fog and cats can come and go at any point…

Victorian era was a time when the legs of a table had to be concealed under cloth so that it was not suggestive in any way. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a prominent author in the Victorian era. By the age of forty-one, Tennyson became the most popular poet of the Victorian era. “The Lady of Shalott” is a famous poem written by Tennyson that expresses a great deal of isolation. In Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s lonely “The Lady of Shalott,” Tennyson uses the characteristics…

Journal #10 In the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot show some great and true statements about how love can or lust can have a person feeling cowardly. According to Google dictionary Cowardly mean “in a way that shows a lack of courage.” The main theme I got from this poem is how he is trying overcome his fear to gets the woman attention. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” the speaker also shows how it may take time for a man to go and approach a woman whereas…

One day at school Alfred Gregory McAlfred III, Alfred for short, the cleaner shrimp was talking to his classmate Bobbie, who is also a cleaner shrimp. All throughout the school day Bobbie was bragging about how she was so much smarter than Alfred because she knew so much about the coral reef and how all the different organisms interact. This did not make Alfred happy so he went to ask his wise grandfather, Alfred Gregory McAlfred Senior, about how all of these things work so that he could could…

Why did the scientific community, not accept Alfred Wegner's theory at first? Alfred Wegners had an abundance of strong evidence such as there was similar fossil remains found on different continents proving that the Earth was once a supercontinent known as. Pangea. Alfred also found cogent evidence that proved certain coastal lines fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle. For example, when Wegner matched Africa and South America's coastline they fitted together forming part of the supercontinent…