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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” published in 1915, was written by a man named T.S. Eliot. The speaker of the poem begins to describe an evening that appears to be somewhat romantic and a little mysterious. As the reader progresses into the poem, the mood soon fades and the reader starts to figure out that this evening is not what they pictured. “Acquainted with the Night” is a poem written by Robert Frost. The poem was first published in 1927. The speaker of the poem has a similar mood as

Modernism began around the late 1800s or early 1900s, with artists and writers in Europe producing many extraordinary and influential works. This period spans many events, including both World Wars and the Great Depression. World War I appeared to be a major event that helped to start Modernism; this was because of the destruction and ruin that came from it and events that followed. This poem is consistent with the values of Modernism because of alienation, time, and self- consciousness; however

Aspects of Mood Presented Through Setting in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi" The element of setting plays an important part in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot and "Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi" by Garrett Hongo as they give readers a sense of the narrators ' emotions and perspectives. Although the settings of both poems are presented in similar ways, they reflect on different aspects of the narrators ' mood. First of

relationship with technology has created. The individuals, lack sensitivity. My generation as a whole, that’s another story. Somehow, my generation became the most desensitized at the same time it became the easiest to offend. This is why I love the poem “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath so much. In the midst of the 20th century Plath touched on topics of depression and suicide in such a shameless way that, it is capable of evoking emotion most modern forms of expression fail to reach. To do this Plath masterfully

T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” illustrates the poet’s fear of the fragmentation of modern society. In the poem, Eliot creates the persona of his speaker, J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock is speaking to an unknown listener. The persona of Prufrock is Eliot’s interpretation of Western society and its impotency at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. His views are modernistic, which idolize the classical forms while incorporating new ideas about psychology and the subconscious

Also, being Duncan’s “kinsman and his subject”, he must stay loyal. “I ought to protect him from his murderer, not carry the knife myself.” he says. But then Lady Macbeth calls him, and persuades him to carry out the dire deed by first comparing Macbeth’s hesitation with a drunken person that has “...woken up to look sick at what he did when tipsy.” She then makes him feel bad by implying that this deed would

Impotent, pathetic, inadequate, timid. Everyone knows a J. Alfred Prufrock, and everyone has a bit of him in himself or herself. Just like Prufrock we readers have been witness to the pretentious triviality of others, the women who "come and go/ Talking of Michelangelo" (lines 13-14), and the lack of confidence which prevents the realization of desires. Eliot's careful choice of epigraph from Dante's Inferno reverberates throughout this poem as the logic behind Prufrock sharing his feelings with

“When I look at freaks it makes me content by comparison to be less than perfect,” - Clyde Ingalls, boss of the sideshow for Ringling Brothers (Drimmer, 10) AMC’s Freakshow: Normal is Dead It is difficult to watch American television in the first decade of the twenty-first century without encountering a freak. According to Robert Bogdan in his socio-historical study of the freak show in America, the popularity of the circus had run its course by the 1940s (Bogdan 60), attracting in its waning years

A Literary Analysis of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Eliot was one among few poets and authors that dominated the years between the First and Second World Wars. Eliot showed his use of modernism techniques through “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, creating a powerful reputation around the world, particularly as a member of The Lost Generation in the 1920s. Eliot moved to and settled in London where he worked with famous poets including Ezra Pound, and published his

Never in Love When reading the title of T.S Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” it is believed we are in store for a poem of romance and hope. A song that will inspire embrace and warmth of the heart, regretfully this is could not be further from the truth. This poem takes us into the depths of J. Alfred Prufrock, someone who holds faltering doubt and as a result may never come to understand real love. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” takes us through Prufrock’s mindset and his self-doubting