The ironic character of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” an early poem by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) in the form of a dramatic monologue, is introduced in its title. Eliot is talking, through his speaker, about the absence of love, and the poem, so far from being a “song,” is a meditation on the …
Form is the metrical and stanziac organization of a poem. T.S. Eliot write the first Prelude in a 13-line stanza. He writes the second Prelude in Cinquains. He uses 15 stanza form in Prelude three. For Prelude four he uses 9-Quatrain-Tercet. I believe that he wrote these Preludes in Traditional writting because it has metrics …
Modernism was the cultural movement in which innovation and experimentation of art and literature was celebrated and explored as a reaction against the formality and optimism of the preceding Victorian period. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a Modernist literary figure who contributed significantly to the movement in the early to mid 1900s. In Eliot’s “Preludes” and …
James Joyce’s ‘Eveline’ and T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ both provide an elaborative portrayal of the modernist notions of passivity and uncertainty. The characters of Eveline and J. Alfred Prufrock are each represented as being miserable in their current lives, yet neither possesses the willingness nor courage to effect change. Joyce …
Death has been and always will be an interesting and compelling topic among poets and authors alike. Death sheds a mysterious vale over life and is often avoided or dreaded within people causing diversity among the reactions of modern poetry and thought. Mortality can be treated as a crisis, a destination, with significance or without, …
