Portrait of a Lady

In his poem We Wear the Mask, Laurence Dunbar speaks rather elusively on the topic of human deceit. More specifically, the underlying message of the human tendency to hide emotions in suffering, reveals itself in the 15 line poem. Explored in the first two lines of the poem, Dunbar speaks about a figurative mask; a mask covering the face, hiding cheeks and eyes, with the mask taking over with its fake happiness, all a subdued lie. Continuing through the poem, the second stanza expresses grief…

"Rain Fontaines" with a legend if like numerous male characters Mishima welcomes further examination (encyclopedia, 2012). Plot summary The short story "Fountain in the rain" composed by Yukio Mishima is a young person who tries to break with his lady friend. In the story of the adolescent few discovers mythical beings a wellspring, an alteration key area. Fontaine shows incredible imperativeness ever. "" Yukio Mishima is likely still the most well-known Japanese current essayist has created.…

The poem "The Unknown Citizen" written by W.H Auden, he expresses the predicament of losing individuality that the United States of America citizens face. The poem consists of bureaucratic and irony tones that illustrate the clash between government control and individualism. "The Unknown Citizen" is told from a bureaucratic point of view and they speak of an ideal man, who in their eyes is the model of the perfect citizen. The author writes this poem to emphasize the importance of our…

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…

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…

Apathetic Tone in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T.S Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the sad tale of a man who has accomplished little in life but wearing "rich" clothing and procrastinating. Eliot employs a myriad of literary devices to convey the dull routineness of Prufrock's life, but the absolutely apathetic tone of the narrator is what really drives home just how passive he is about his own life. The entire poem is nothing but an aside to help Prufrock avoid…

In the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, written by T.S. Elliot, there is one main theme that branches into subthemes throughout the poem. The theme at hand is one that most people can relate to, including myself. Acceptance. Acceptance is the feeling everyone wants, and fear not having. We are psychologically “wired to seek love and acceptance” states Dr. John Amodeo from PsychCentral (web). Fear of not looking like society says you should look. Fear of not living up to the…

In the ‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, T.S Eliot gives the readers a view through a twenty-two-year-old modernist, around the beginning of World War 1, set in a bedraggled, populous city and its persona is represented by an extremely caliginous man under the name of Prufrock. He is depicted as one that is afraid of living and hence is continually procrastinating. In contrast, ‘Mirror’, written by Sylvia Plath in 1961, around two years before her suicide, carries one into the mind of a woman…

Within a reality encircled of spiritual deaths and where the forces of time and death calls and lurks on their prey, is a man who lost himself in every sense. Among an industrialized dark world in which a reasonable sign of vivacity is seldom found, is the present time for the man who oughts to believe his mind and soul are rich in color. Yet in all sensibility, he too is a foreigner who lacks zeal for life- unknown to the outside world. The mysterious speaker in T.S Eliot’s “The Love Song of…

T.S. Eliot is known to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century due to his wide-ranging contributions to poetry, criticism, prose, and drama (Explanation of: “The Waste Land”). In this case, his work becomes stronger as his allusions contribute to help convey the meaning of each poem. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock seems to start out as a love poem when he tells someone, “Let us go then, you and I” (Sound and Sense, 284). Farther on though, it starts to stray to Prufrock…