T.S..Eliot Essay

Literature throughout time often features characters who are similar for a variety of reasons. During the nineteenth century many works of literature featured characters who were devalued, exploited, or dehumanized and how they achieve or transform status and gain self respect and/or freedom. These works emphasize the importance of the common man. This trend in print could be attributed to the political climate throughout the nineteenth century. This was a time of turmoil as many people began to…

The piece “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S Elliot is introduced with an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno. Dante’s Inferno is an epic, which depicts the journey of a man named Dante who is guided through the nine levels of hell. The excerpt from the poem is of a scene in which the speaker states that he has no fear and will speak freely of his sins to Dante because nobody who has crossed this far into Hell has ever made it back to earth to spread his story. Elliot has been known to…

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…

The characteristic richness of the poem is ostensible from its first lines; indeed, the opening stanza of “Prufrock” is among the most familiar of all poetry, and the author is hailed for his vivid depiction of setting and liberal use of imagery. Eliot incorporates nuanced poetic elements-- the most marked of these being irony, figurative language, and sound devices-- in order to parody his colleagues’ picturesque, romantic poetry, thereby contending that literature often fails to reflect the…

Ezra Pound achieves his purpose of the narrator dealing how with her innocences and loneliness through diction, syntax, tone, mood, and figurative language. In “The river merchant 's wife; a letter” Ezra Pound 's uses his own interpretation of the original poem to determine what diction was poetic. That’s why the this poem is considered an objective correlative, meaning that Ezra pound is trying to make his pound understandable to anyone that reads it. His main objective of the poem is that he…

dilemmas from which there is no escape. They wander through a barren landscape, which reflects the spiritually, emotionally and intellectually crippling world, a land, where humanity is offered no solace or hope. Similarly in “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” Eliot criticises modern life through the description of a city at night and the dehumanization of humanity by alienation. Eliot’s use of central images of the poem, “death’s kingdoms” and “the eyes”, serve to foreground the lack of direction of…

Imagism is a literary movement that had its origin in the artistic world and reinvented the traditional conventions in art and poetry. This movement emerged in the early 20th century and its main representatives are Ezra Pound, H.D., William Carlos Williams, and James Joyce among others. The main characteristics of Imagism were written down by Ezra Pound in an article published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in 1913 with the title of: ‘A Few Dont’s by an Imagiste’ in which Pound describes the…

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…

Eliot opens the essay by redefining the word “tradition” and arguing that criticism in his view “is as inevitable as breathing.” The first principle of criticism that he asserts is to focus not solely upon what is unique in a poet but upon what he shares with “the dead poets, his ancestors.” This sharing, when it is not the mere and unquestioning following of established poetic practice, involves the historical sense, a sense that the whole of literary Europe and of one’s own country “has a…

He is extremely dispirited with this thought. He is caught in the pangs of alienation. A dictionary of literary terms defined alienation as; ‘Alienation is the state of being alienated or being estranged from something or somebody; it is a condition of the mind’. Encyclopedia Britannica defines alienation as ‘the state of feeling estranged or separated from ones milieu, work, products of work or self. Different interpreters of alienation have given different definitions. According to Arnold…