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    'Eliot was a great magician of words as well as the exceptionally key manager of the language. ' – Igor Stravinsky depicts T.S Eliot 's written work expertise as he draws on not just his ability to transform and reshape the meaning of words, yet to implement them and his new challenged way of deduction into innovators society. The notion of romanticism from the past is transformed into new innovator philosophies as the utilization of language and style emphasis Eliot 's crisp expression of…

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    The piece “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S Elliot is introduced with an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno. Dante’s Inferno is an epic, which depicts the journey of a man named Dante who is guided through the nine levels of hell. The excerpt from the poem is of a scene in which the speaker states that he has no fear and will speak freely of his sins to Dante because nobody who has crossed this far into Hell has ever made it back to earth to spread his story. Elliot has been known to…

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    Prufrock Symbolism

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    Analysis of Prufrock The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock written by T. S. Eliot is the tragic story of one man who desperately looks for love ,yet, fears nothing more. The reader is taken with Prufrock on a cryptic walk through murky streets and hushed voices until he can come to terms with the essence of his life. Through the use of Eliot’s symbols and imagery, transformation of setting,sexual attraction and changes through age Prufrock’s masks the catastrophe that is evolved from a walk in…

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    Irony In Prufrock

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    The characteristic richness of the poem is ostensible from its first lines; indeed, the opening stanza of “Prufrock” is among the most familiar of all poetry, and the author is hailed for his vivid depiction of setting and liberal use of imagery. Eliot incorporates nuanced poetic elements-- the most marked of these being irony, figurative language, and sound devices-- in order to parody his colleagues’ picturesque, romantic poetry, thereby contending that literature often fails to reflect the…

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    Ezra Pound achieves his purpose of the narrator dealing how with her innocences and loneliness through diction, syntax, tone, mood, and figurative language. In “The river merchant 's wife; a letter” Ezra Pound 's uses his own interpretation of the original poem to determine what diction was poetic. That’s why the this poem is considered an objective correlative, meaning that Ezra pound is trying to make his pound understandable to anyone that reads it. His main objective of the poem is that he…

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    In the long history of English writers and poets, Thomas Stearns Eliot has a huge impact on poetry and stands among Shakespeare and Chaucer as one of the giants of English Literature. . Eliot was a who comes along only once in a generation,and he wrote as if he were living in a bygone era, modeling himself after writers such as Dante and Baudelaire; although he never acknowledged that fact. Throughout Eliot 's works, the author expressed his views on social. He made it clear that the current…

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    “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…

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    dilemmas from which there is no escape. They wander through a barren landscape, which reflects the spiritually, emotionally and intellectually crippling world, a land, where humanity is offered no solace or hope. Similarly in “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” Eliot criticises modern life through the description of a city at night and the dehumanization of humanity by alienation. Eliot’s use of central images of the poem, “death’s kingdoms” and “the eyes”, serve to foreground the lack of direction of…

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    Imagism is a literary movement that had its origin in the artistic world and reinvented the traditional conventions in art and poetry. This movement emerged in the early 20th century and its main representatives are Ezra Pound, H.D., William Carlos Williams, and James Joyce among others. The main characteristics of Imagism were written down by Ezra Pound in an article published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in 1913 with the title of: ‘A Few Dont’s by an Imagiste’ in which Pound describes the…

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    leaving this earth behind with unfinished business as the travel to the unknown, but expected. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, the poet T. S. Eliot weaves a tale about the passing of time through the strategically placed questions in the poem, the use of figurative language, and the shifts in the mood of this famed poem. Throughout the poem, Eliot places rhetorical questions that not only indicate the passing of time, but also provide insight into the slow toll that time takes on the…

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