T. S. Eliot's The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock And The Waste Land

In the short story “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro and the “Destructors” by Graham Greene. Elements of modernism are reflected through both works of literature. In “Boys and Girls” it is coming from a girl’s view of how she has been given a role as a girl but she does not agree with society’s standards. “The Destructors” is more connected in post-modernism, during the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th era and ideas in the sculptures, buildings, and denigration. The historical setting in “The Destructors” was involved with World War One, which symbolizes a disappearance from modernization and is considered by the uncomfortable custom of previous polishes and agreements.

Society, for centuries, has revered poetry for its beauty, philosophy, and unique capability to reveal truth to the individual. One of the most prominent time periods that display society’s acclaim for poetry was within the Romantic period. Romanticism, according to the New World Encyclopedia, was “an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience” (New World Encyclopedia, 2015). Romanticism glorified art, poetry, music, and nature. Two examples of Romantic poets are Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson, whose writing exemplifies the Romantic theme of individuality, or the divergence from traditional societal norms and beliefs. The poems “A Dream Within A Dream,” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “Much Madness is Divinest Sense,” by Emily Dickinson perfectly display this theme of individuality. Within these poems, one can see both the similarities and differences regarding the theme, numerous elements of Romanticism such as individualism, imagination, and insight, the impact the theme has on societal norms, and the timelessness of the theme by being incorporated into modern day culture.

Eliot symbolizes the isolation of Prufrock in the beginning to show the character that he is in search of love. In his poem he uses a personification to symbolize the love of J. Alfred Prufrock:

The American Dream. The dream of equal opportunity to all. The dream of riches and success. The dream of happiness in a new land. At least, that’s what it is supposed to be. America has aged and changed, and so has it’s “dream”. Society has a hold on America’s dream and as it changes, and moves from one trend to a next, so does the American Dream. The Dream as a whole no longer represents hope for America, but the hope for societal riches. Arthur Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Cormac McCarthy all exploit the downfalls of society’s standards and representations of the American Dream.

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, T.S. Eliot creates a rather melancholy, resigned tone through the application of multiple literary devices including extensive repetition, the deliberate use of punctuation in conjunction with varied rhyme schemes and meter to both direct attention and generally slow the reader, and repeated references to a few central pieces of imagery that particularly exude this tone.

Emerson starts out by talking to the people he is close to explaining why he is leaving. He is saying how he is leaving this world and he is not sad. In the second stanza he is listing all of the stuff he is saying bye to. For instance he is saying goodbye to flattery’s fawning face which he is showing criticism because he will not actually miss it at all. He is saying bye to crowded halls, to court, to street, which he is putting this into a person 's perspective so others will understand it better than just talking about nature when no one will understand it like he did. He goes back to nature and is telling what he likes about this world, and puts it into a perspective that people will understand while still incorporating nature. Emerson

T.S. Eliot published his dramatic monologue, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in 1915. In the poem when Eliot writes “I”, he is referring to the narrator, who is Prufrock. Prufrock seems to have seen the seedier side of life. He is growing older and is acutely aware of what he has become, turning thin, losing his hair, and measuring his like on coffee spoons. He wants to refresh his stale, musty life, but isn’t sure where to start. He still wants to leave his mark on the world, even “disturb the universe”, but he is also isolated, nervous, and lacks confidence. He doesn’t trust anyone or anything. Prufrock wants to make a proposal of love, but he is afraid that if he does it will upset the

Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider” was initially published in 1868, in London Magazine. Originally, it was the third section of a larger poem, entitle “Whispers of Heavenly Death.” In the poem, “A Noiseless Patient Spider” the speaker, Walt Whitman repeatedly emphasizes the connection between the spider and his soul. In this poem, the speaker observes a noiseless patient spider on a promontory leaving a mark on its vast surrounding by weaving its web. The main idea of this poem is to draw the comparison between the spider and the speaker’s soul. This poem consists of two stanzas of five line each and both stanzas mirror each other in size and structure. The separation of the stanzas represents a shift from literal to figurative desires.

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot is indeed a poem written with great intelligence. Using literary devices such as allusion and imagery helps express the true meaning with much detail and depth. From my understanding, J. Alfred Prufrock is a man that is full of regret, wishing that he would have actually done certain things while he had time, and wishing that he could have found love. What I have taken from this poem is definitely this, do things while there is still time, or look back and regret not doing

T.S Eliot uses the symbol of water to extract life and not beginning a new life like Marlow did. In line 342, the “spring rain” brought life to the wasteland, but the wasteland does not let anything grow. The lack of rain does not let new life to be created, showing the water is a necessity for life. In section four, Death by Water, a man died by drowning in the water that was in the sea. In the Wasteland, there is barely any water, but this man “passed the stages of his age and youth”, dying by “entering [a] whirlpool (Eliot 317). This means the whirlpool, or sea, caused his death. Eliot is trying to make the audience aware the life and death are fearful. The water is fear; for example, as a man “passed the stages of his age and youth” by water creates a meaning that life should be feared because death comes along with it (Eliot 317). Also in section five, What the Thunder Said, it states that there “is no water but only rock.” The Wasteland tries to explain that since there is only rock, life cannot be created and life already in The Wasteland will not survive for long. Eliot twists the expected symbolism of water which is life, but Eliot uses water to show there is no life. As this is done, Eliot tries to connect with water throughout The Wasteland. Eliot’s message by seeking water, but there is none shows that The Wasteland seeks a living source but a living object cannot make it through The Wasteland. Since there is no

Not all love songs have a happy ending after all. The poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by T.S. Eliot showcases diction, imagery, and allusion to express the speaker’s complex attitude towards his life. In this poem Prufrock is portrayed as a sad and tormented man that simply doesn’t have the courage to act on his desires.

T.S. Eliot is a worldwide famous poet, an American modernist, and the winner of the 1894 Nobel Prize in Literature. Eliot changed the existing order in English literature. His poetry and literary criticism changed the literary interests of the whole generation. Through his poems, he forces people to know the history of the development of English poetry and to look at the seventeenth-century England with a new vision of Romanticism. At the same time, his works deepen people 's understanding of French symbolism in the nineteenth century and make people more aware of the possibility of drawing lessons from foreign poetry. Eliot uses tradition and personal innovation, combined with the revitalization of the twentieth-century British poetry, which leads to poems full of vitality. Based on the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” this paper explores the poet 's exploration and innovation in the aspects of poetic skills and content. The early works of Eliot are in a low tone, and he often uses association, metaphor, and suggestion to express modern people 's depression. The famous poem “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" uses the inner monolog of the protagonist’s desire to love and fear of the contradictory attitude of love to illustrate modern emptiness and cowardice.

Modernism is a movement that arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Modernism rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking. Modernist poetry refers to poetry written, mainly in Europe and North America, between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature. It is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. Modernists experimented with literary expression and form, stick to Ezra Pound 's maxim to “Make it new”.

Ryan and Sid walk into a narrow alley, which has earned its moniker ‘’Junk Street’’ because of the drugs provided there. All the filth of the world gathers around here when darkness falls. Drugs, in any form, are sold, bought, exchanged, sniffed, injected, smoked and swallowed here. Just as Ryan and Sid enter the premises of the Junk Street, we are exposed to a whole new world. Ranging from teenagers to old grumpy gooses, you can see just about everybody either buying or selling junk. Some of them are injecting heroine, contaminating their whole being.

This proposal focuses on studying the themes of “THE HOLLOW MEN” poem. This poem belongs to the post modern literature from the modern period (1900- 1950s). The characteristics of modernity are: pessimism, frustration, isolation, total sense of loss; modern writers had no sense of purpose, the anxiety of uncertainty, meaninglessness, no values and miscommunication. The Hollow Men (1925) is a poem written by T.S. Eliot. Its themes are, like many of Eliot’s poems, absurdity, fragmentation and overlapping, but it is crucial to connect this poem most with the World War 1 which caused the dark view since wars cause destruction and frustration. Moreover, the difficulty of hope and being optimistic. This poem is divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines.