Arnolfini Portrait

Exercise 2: Crux Buster, Harrison’s “On Not Being Milton” In Tony Harrison’s poem “On Not Being Milton” he writes, “my Cahier d’un retour au pays natal” (3). According to the footnote, the French phrase comes from the title of Aime Cesaire’s poem about colonized West Indian people and a journey back to their homeland. The translated version would read, “Notebook of a return to one’s land of birth.” The first two lines of this poem set the theme of the speaker returning to his roots in the form…

T.S. Eliot is considered “one of the twentieth century’s major poets”. He was born in the United States, but settled in England in his later years of life. Eliot was heavily influenced by religion and modernism – a new and upcoming type of poetry during the 1910’s. T.S. Eliot’s use of allusions, symbols, theme, and unique compositions of his poems create a signature melancholy, yet aesthetical style. In almost every T.S. Eliot poem, there is a use of allusions, or references to a well-known…

work in context of style and inspiration in relation to a recent photo portrait. Analysis of Roy DeCarava’s Photography Roy DeCarava was an influential photographer from New York, born in 1919; he is renowned…

The painting conveys how the crazy storm is approaching towards the nearby land. From this, people near the shore are running away. They are telling other people to watch out and run away from those big waves. People that are laying on top of the rocks were trying to be safe from the waves. Furthermore, it looks like towards the smaller rocks people were swept from the waves to the land. They are trying to catch their breaths and other people are dragging them away from the shore. On top of that…

The world has changed geographically, historically, and in scientific ways, but one thing that has remain constant throughout the ages of human existence is love and the struggles 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…

“Till human voices wake us, and we drown” (Bartle by). The sounds of the last line of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Prufrock couldn’t be farther away from love. By analyzing the themes and imagery along with the overall form of the poem, we will see if this poem has a title that relates to what it represents – a love story. Although the main character in Eliot’s poem uses the word love, this poem is centralized around a human living in a modernized society. The Love Song…

The title of this poem is the first clue in which Eliot provides a characteristic of modernism. The title “suggest the kind of irony that is so typical of modern free verse” (Evans) as “love song” (Byam 822) and “J. Alfred Prufrock” (Byam 822) do not seem to fit in the same line of words. Along with the title, the epigraph, which “portrays a man in hell” (Güven 80), who “reveals details of his life” (Evans). He believes his words won’t be repeated on Earth. In the same way, the reader is…

In “The Love Song of J. 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.…

“And would it have been worth it, after all? Would it have been worth it?” That’s the question- the question that so many of us face every day and a question that is pondered in the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot. Eliot’s transcendent use of diction and tone tells the story of an old man who is unhappy with his life and the things that he hadn’t accomplished. The man in the poem is tired of his superficial surroundings and he wishes that he had done something more…

today, he is celebrated for his magnificent portraits, and it is easy to understand his popularity in portrait painting after viewing even just one of his portraits. His portraits of women caused quite a stir, and this boosted his popularity while also causing him to become notorious for his sensual depictions of women. Arguably his most popular work of art, a painting titled Madame X, a portrait…