T. S. Eliot

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…

In accordance with Virginia’s Woolf’s essay titled “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” the idea that human relations changed circa December 1910 is explored. In Woolf’s words “in or about December 1910 human character changed” (Woolf 2). This change, which she asserts was “not sudden and definite,” (Woolf 2) leads the reader to believe it was gradual. The Victorian and Georgian Era are stark in contrast regarding the everyday individual (and said individual’s relationships). Where the Georgian lived a…

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…

INTRODUCTION TO T. S. ELIOT INTRODUCTION Born on 26th September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American born English poet, essayist, playwright and literary critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest English poets and has served as a prominent influence on the course of modern literature. The critic Hugh Kenner remarked that “opinion concerning the most influential man of letters of the 20th century has not freed itself from a cloud of unknowing” [1] and…

also a generation, T.S. Eliot observes the consequences of such horrors on the men of his generation. He implies in “The Hollow Men” that the survivors, the ones who come home, are the ones who lose salvation and become trapped in a living purgatory due to a loss of faith. Initially, Eliot establishes the “hollow men” as weakened men without sustenance. Their lives are void of any significance, and they are “Leaning together / Headpiece[s] filled with straw” (5-6). Eliot believes these “stuffed…

T.S. Eliot had a very peculiar relationship with women, having an unhappy marriage with his first wife and reportedly having difficulty with sexual intimacy throughout his relationships. Though it all being speculative, many believe that Eliot’s issues with women stem from his fear of them and their empowerment. In a letter written to his father, Eliot wrote, ‘I distrust the Feminine in literature, and also, once a woman has had…

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…

Examine how John Donne presents the speaker 's view of love within ‘The flea’. I believe that within John Donne’s poem, he presents the view that love should overcome the boundaries of religion. With the view that loosing virginity before marriage is neither ‘a sin, nor shame’ Defending women, saying that they should be free to have sex before marriage. However an alternative view is that Donne is being selfish and wants to have sex with these women without having to marry them. In the poem…

T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an ironic depiction of both man’s dilemma and neglection of his view of the modern society that lacks any true meaningful relationships between other people. The poem deals with the idea of modernism, a desire to break from traditional way of understanding the world by rejecting the artistic and literature styles of the past. This idea of modernism appears in William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning.” “Barn Burning” shows the son’s dilemma of trying…

himself. “Nevertheless, the techniques he [develops] through his dramatic monologues—especially his use of diction, rhythm, and symbol—are regarded as his most important contribution to poetry, influencing such major poets of the twentieth century as T. S. Eliot and Robert Frost” (Mary Ruby). It is implying…