The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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…

In “ The Raven,” Edgar Allan uses form to demonstrate that often when people have a limited understanding of their surroundings, it leads them to fear of the unknown, resulting in their stubborn refusal to accept and embrace inevitable change. Consequently the poet’s use of repetition in ‘Raven’ accentuates the speaker’s concept of fear to move on to a new unfamiliar beginning. As this is demonstrated in stanza 1, on “a January morning”(5), which implies the beginning of a difficult new change…

against society’s standards and taking a stand to its judgments, “turning away when I don’t dance to the beat” and “quietly challenging the song around me.” In this instance, song and dance refers to society mindlessly following each other and how the narrator is purposefully ignoring the idea of following the crowd “Turning away” or “quietly challenging the song around me,” thus leaving him as an outcast. The message of this poem is initiated in the first stanza, “standing alone under an…

What is the significance of the wall? Often in literature, there are numerous meanings that can be differently interpreted by the reader. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville is a great example of how symbols and meaning can be interpreted differently as something metaphorical. Herman Melville uses walls as a symbol representing the monotonous routine of the scrivener’s job, with no bright perspective in the future, no excitement. Author uses walls to show how they keep people isolated…

So, back to Horace, Liberovici's aesthetic indifference touches his nerves. However he does not have the character of Don Quixote, he doesn't like confrontation, he prefers to gloss over. And looking at the Liberovici's scowl asking if the statue of the Unknown Policeman is strictly figurative he decides to nod vague and to divert on other topics. “Ehm, yes, figurative, more or less... So, excuse me, why did you summon me?” “We have urgent need of your services. Who knows, perhaps for the last…

reality and the mind. According to Güven, “Eliot implies that nobody shows his real face in this fragmented modern world, and that is the reason why Prufrock needs time to prepare a false face for himself” (Güven 82). Prufrock cannot help but place a barrier between the people and himself due to the pretentious nature of modern people. For example, Prufrock interrupts the poem by stating “In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo” (Line 13-14). He expresses how the the women…

T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Lowell’s “The Chambered Nautilus” have a recurring theme revolving around time, time passing or suddenly fleeting away without any sense of remorse or warning. In “The Chambered Nautilus” from the first stanza starts a beginning of life, a new embarking ship discovering adventures. “Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair,” is a quote at the end of the first stanza that foreshadows the heavens, an allusion to how everything…

Poems are often catalysed by personal experiences, expressing a poet’s concerns about life and encouraging audiences to embrace their unique perspective. T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, are examples of modernist poetry, through which both poets aim to reflect the sense of disillusionment and impotence they experienced as the horrors of World War 1 mounted. Owen firmly rejects the idea of heroism in war that was created by Romanticist…

and J. Alfred Prufrock, present in the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a man who grew up in poverty and attempts to remake the past by altering his identity into that of a rich man in order to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan. On the other hand, in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot, the main character, J. Alfred Prufrock, fails to gather enough courage to propose to a woman he truly loves…

Christianity greatly affected The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock because of Eliot taking pride in his religion as he practices it. It is very interesting, however, that Eliot was not practicing the religion of Christianity at the time that he wrote this poem. He was a member of a different religion during the writing of this poem, however, there are many references and beliefs that are mentioned and shown through his writing of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. An example of these Christian…