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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
1,322 wordsEzra Pound and T. S. Eliot on Modernism On Ezra Pounds quote on modernism, he claims that the modern age wants a literature that reflects an image of itself: accelerated and mass produced (a mould in plaster/Made with no loss of time) as well as superficial. This means that todays society wants a literature that resembles itself, fast paced and shallow. Society want literature that is direct and straightforward simply because people find it too time consuming to think for themselves. They would ...
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T S Eliot Heart Of Darkness
387 wordsn T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot contrasts his straw-filled hollow men with the "lost violent souls" of Mr. Kurtz and Guy Fawkes. Mr. Kurtz is a character in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. T. S. Eliot is saying that it is better to have met death and to have strong opinions than to sit idly and remain stagnant. Both Eliot and Conrad are portraying the general society to be decaying. The hollow mean are in a state of stagnation. They can neither choose life nor death and are t...
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The Hollow Men Ts Eliot And Society
1,039 wordsThe poem is one of the most powerful literary methods used to convey ideas or opinions. Through vivid imagery and compelling metaphors, the poem conveys to the reader the thoughts and emotions of the author. Modern poets, however, manipulated traditional forms of poetry and sought to greatly influence the ideas of their readers. T. S. Eliot is a prime example of a modern poet who wrote controversial and thought-provoking works, particularly The Hollow Men. Modernism is the time period between 18...
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1,101 words... right to vote. The Portrait of a Lady, Aunt Helen, and Cousin Nancy are among various poems written by T. S. Eliot that has themes dealing with women and their advancement in society. In the poem Cousin Nancy, Eliot writes: Miss Nancy Ellicott Strode across the hills and broke them, Rode across the hills and broke them -- The barren New England hills -- Riding to hounds Over the cow-pasture. Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure how th...
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Emptiness In The Great Gatsby
790 wordsIn The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the emptiness of a very meretricious society. Many people in todays materialistic world are just hollow, but some have a dream, which turns into a goal. In many cases this dream might be pursued, but for some people it becomes a superficial vision. Through the use of symbolism and characterization in the novel and Eliot's poem the blindness of people in depicted; the only person with any substance is Gatsby, but in the end, his dream becomes artificial as...
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
1,704 wordsThrough the centuries, decades, and years the world has come by many amazing authors and poets but there are always that select renowned few that will stick out in your memory, one of which being Thomas Stearns Eliot. As you read on you will be taken through the journey of T. S. Eliot's amazing and intriguing life, and his works of poetry. His authoritative prose style he developed in his 20 s helped him re-establish the premises upon which poetry was read, evaluated, and written. In writing str...
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T S Eliot Iambic Tetrameter
1,422 wordsAnalysis of the poems: T. S. Eliot Preludes and Rita Dove "Daystar" The poems Preludes and "Daystar" were written in two different eras - modernism and postmodernism and therefore they reflect the world from two different angels. Following the prescriptions of literary modernism, T. S. Eliot addresses the issue of the confrontation between a personality and a diseased city. Eliot's Preludes, written in 1917 consists of four parts and generally creates the atmosphere of decadence and melancholy o...
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
1,943 wordsPoetry One of the most influential and celebrated writers of the twentieth century was T. S. Eliot. In his writings he was able to successfully capture the feelings of his time. His contributions to the genre of poetry have had a profound effect on modern literature. While Eliot is most well known for his poetry, he was also an accomplished playwright and author of several books of social criticism (Unger, p. 118). In Eliot's poems and plays, he was able to capture the feelings of the intellectu...
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T S Eliot Eliot
576 wordsT. S. Eliot? Imagery of Preludes In T. S. Eliot? s poem Preludes he portrays the alienation of the individual from society. His imagery is sharp and clear and he uses many techniques to achieve this. A clear description of what something is, can be pictured in the mind by his precise use of imagery. For example, the words, ? ? withered leaves? (7) gives a clear image, as does, ? ? dingy shades? (22). The effect is achieved through descriptions of the human influence, word choice, syntax, and rhy...
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2,599 wordsThe Life of T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis Missouri, to Henry Ware and Charlotte Stearns Elliot. His father was a businessman, and his mother was a poetess. Eliot came from a financially endowed family and was allowed to attend all of the best schools. His education started at the prestige grammar school Smith Academy in St. Louis. He then went to secondary school in Massachusetts at Milton Academy, a preparatory school for Harvard. In 1906, he star...
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J Alfred Prufrock Today Society
1,450 wordsEzra Pound and T. S. Eliot on Modernism On Ezra Pound? s quote on modernism, he claims that? the modern age wants a literature that reflects an image of itself: ? accelerated? and mass produced (? a mould in plaster/Made with no loss of time) as well as superficial. ? This means that today? s society wants a literature that resembles itself, fast paced and shallow. Society want literature that is direct and straightforward simply because people find it too? time consuming? to think for themselve...
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1,472 wordsEzra Pound and T. S. Eliot on Modernism On Ezra Pound? s quote on modernism, he claims that " the modern age wants a literature that reflects an image of itself: " accelerated" and mass produced (" a mould in plaster/Made with no loss of time) as well as superficial. " This means that today? s society wants a literature that resembles itself, fast paced and shallow. Society want literature that is direct and straightforward simply because people find it too " time c...
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T S Eliot Stanza The Speaker
1,314 wordsPrayer for Tradition &# 9; In the poem A Song for Simeon, T. S. Eliot uses ambiguity and religious allusion to convey decay and death of the old order to make room for modernity. Examining the imagery in the poem and the tone used allows for a better idea of what the speakers attitude is toward these changes, and perhaps a hint of how the author himself feels. The view the speaker takes toward the changes he believes are to come is one of fear. He feels threatened by the thought of the way of li...
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T S Eliot Eliot
2,316 wordsImages Of Women: Major Barbara, A Passage Images Of Women: Major Barbara, A Passage To India, And The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot Images of Women: Major Barbara, A Passage to India, and the poetry of T. S. Eliot The Victorian Era was a difficult and confusing time for women, and their trials are reflected in the literature of the time. Although the three pieces of literature being discussed are not entirely about women, they shed light on the Victorian ideal of women and the ideals of the authors who ...
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
857 wordsSeveral of Joyce's stories in Dubliners can read as lamentations. They are showing the frustrated inability of man to represent meaning by external means, including written word. When characters in ^Araby^, and ^A Painful Case^ attempt to represent or signify themselves, other characters or abstract spiritual entities with or through words, they not only fail, but end up emotionally ruined. In T. S. Eliot's^ poem, ^ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, ^ the feeling relates to one overall issue ...
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2,200 wordsA Poets Valediction by Nicholas OConnell In a final interview, poet Denise Levertov discusses the egotism of modern poetry, the sacredness of writing, and the spiritual hunger of our technologically dependent society. Denise Levertov, who died on December 20, 1997, was much loved by her readers and an inspiration to several generations of poets. She forged a middle path in modern poetry, marrying the hard, dry objective style of the Imagist poets with the music and metaphysical yearnings of figu...
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T S Eliot Rose Garden
6,364 wordsHelen Gardner The more familiar we become with Four Quartets, however, the more we realize that the analogy with music goes much deeper than a comparison of the sections with the movements of a quartet, or than an identification of the four elements as thematic material. One is constantly reminded of music by the treatment of images, which recur with constant modifications, from their context, or from their combination with other recurring images, as a phrase recurs with modifications in music. ...
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T S Eliot Quot Quot
4,047 wordsThe On " Gerontion" Grover Smith The practice of allusion, justified in " Burbank" by the need to characterize the tourist, performs in " Gerontion" the function of condensing into decent compass a whole panorama of the past. If any notion remained that in the poems of 1919 Eliot was sentimentally contrasting a resplendent past with a dismal present, " Gerontion" should have helped to dispel it. What are contrasted in this poem are the secular history of E...
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
4,904 wordsJ. Hillis Miller Prufrock's paralysis follows naturally from this subjectivizing of everything. If each consciousness is an opaque sphere, then Prufrock has no hope of being understood by others. " No experience, " says Bradley in a phrase Eliot quotes, " can lie open to inspection from outside" (KE, 203). Prufrock's vision is incommunicable, and whatever he says to the lady will be answered by, " That is not what I meant at all. /That is not it, at all" (CP, 6). Th...
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T S Eliot Quot Quot
9,144 wordsCleanth Brooks The bundle of quotations with which the poem ends has a very definite relation to the general theme of the poem and to several of the major symbols used in the poem. Before Arnaut leaps back into the refining fire of Purgatory with joy he says: " I am Arnaut who weep and go singing; contrite I see my past folly, and joyful I see before me the day I hope for. Now I pray you by that virtue which guides you to the summit of the stair, at times be mindful of my pain. " This ...
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