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Passage Of Time Beginning Of The Poem
1,696 wordsIn his poem Eliot paints the picture of an insecure man looking for his niche in society. Prufrock has fallen in with the times, and places a lot of weight on social status and class to determine his identity. He is ashamed of his personal appearance and looks towards social advancement as a way to assure himself and those around him of his worth and establish who he is. Throughout the poem the reader comes to realize that Prufrock has actually all but given up on himself and now sees his baldin...
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J Alfred Prufrock Love Song Of J Alfred
1,425 wordsThe Deeper Side of Prufrock: A Personal Analysis Thomas Sterns Eliot wrote the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock over a period of six years and published it circa 1917 at the ripe old age of twenty-nine. As his first published poem, Prufrock revealed Eliot's original and highly developed style. Its startling jumps from rhetorical language to clich, its indirect literary references, and its simultaneous humor and pessimism were quite new in English literature. (World Book, 236) Prufrock's ...
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Critical Of The Love Song J Alfred Prufrock
1,433 wordsIt Is Impossible To Say Just What I Mean! To What Extent Can This Quotation From The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock Be Said To Summarise The Poem?" The ambiguity that Eliot creates in Prufrock's Love Song, with his often obscure and random streams of consciousness that are so characteristic of modernist literature, ensures that it is quite a challenging read. Similarly, it often seems that Prufrock, who throughout the poem constantly avoids and prolongs the asking of an overwhelming question, s...
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Passage Of Time Beginning Of The Poem
1,671 wordsIn his poem Eliot paints the picture of an insecure man looking for his niche in society. Prufrock has fallen in with the times, and places a lot of weight on social status and class to determine his identity. He is ashamed of his personal appearance and looks towards social advancement as a way to assure himself and those around him of his worth and establish who he is. Throughout the poem the reader comes to realize that Prufrock has actually all but given up on himself and now sees his baldin...
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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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