Epigraph means generally the beginning part of a literary text, a short phase (Hornby, 2010,502). An author's short directions and messages relative to the reader at the beginning of the chapter. The usage of epigraph in literature is widespread with romanticism. It is used for indicating another works, comparisons, and foreshadowing about text’s topic, sometimes it is used to remind something, sometimes to do irony. It can be used to prepare the reader for the text to be read, for...
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T.S. Eliot, in his The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, takes the reader through the perils of life as a middle-aged man in modern society. His poem takes the form of a story, a narrative, with a character delivering a strong sense of voice and mood throughout the poem, moving away from the use of a strict rhyme scheme and meter used traditionally in poetry. Eliot uses repetition, in the form of alliteration, rhyming and literal repetition of words...
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The first factor of the poem which is striking is the title: the fact that it is a ‘Love Song’ suggest closeness and romance which is then removed by the way in which he signs his name. ‘J. Alfred Prufrock’ appears to be more personal than simply his surname because it is individual to him but at the same time it could be interpreted as somewhat formal due to its fullness. Something else which seems strange at first is the...
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T. S. Eliot’s notoriously opaque “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” can be interpreted only by acknowledging that the speaker’s thought process is not consistent throughout but an ongoing process. On first reading, the poems stanzas seem to belong to separate plots or lines of thought, but unity can be perceived if we think of the structure of the poem as reflective of the developing mental state of the speaker, with certain longer stanzas representing the processing of an...
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To say that “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a typical romantic ode to the wonders of love, as the title may suggest, is quite far from the truth. To the contrary, this poem enters the straggling mind of J. Alfred Prufrock, a man plagued with irresolution, and because of this irresolution will probably never realistically be in love with a woman. “Love Song” is a dive into Prufrock’s inconsistent thought processes, and the foggy workings of his...
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Quality poetry offers readers insight into their own relationship with their world, presenting themes prevalent within their own lives that address the complexity of being human. Eliot advocates the need for the confrontation of uncomfortable truths by exploring the unease of immortality caused by modernity which internally manifests disconnection, evoking spiritual rebirth. The pervasiveness of these ideas is evident in “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” and further established in his poem “The Hollow Men”. The exploration of such...
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Heartbreaks are sadly typical throughout everyday life. They are agonizing and everybody needs to stay away from them overall quite well. In T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', the hero (Prufrock) visits a lady whom he cherishes however he is not sure if she responds to his affections for her. All through the entire sonnet, he comes up with pardons for himself and works himself out of truly going up towards this young lady since he is...
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Modernism is a movement in literature which lasted from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. This specific era marked landmark progress in science and technology, globalization and industrialization. Even though these are all indicatives of modernism, the modernist writers, nevertheless, diverted their interest into otherwise. Their central objective was to highlight the potential inconsistency underneath the surface advancement. They observed that with the increased dependance on science and technology, and the gradual removal...
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Through the exploration of T.S Eliot’s ‘Prelude’s’ (1911), ‘The Hollow Men’ (1925) and ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ (‘Prufrock’ 1915), the audience is exposed to the isolation, depersonalisation and corruption of society that Eliot endures by his ‘single voice’ of apprehension, engaging with our own uncertainties. Eliot’s poems endure the hardship of people being hungry for any form of spiritual experience in which through the exploration of the five poems, becomes increasingly obvious. His poetry is set in...
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Through history, world war one stays on an essential position of how the modernism transform. People distinguish the world war one as a great war. It is because it brings the majority of changes to society. In the literature’s history of how the battle changes modernism is it brings some pros and cons. The pros give people a different chance to learn about their expression, and it is not like they used to do. The great war has also brought...
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This essay will discuss The Brave New World book by Aldous Huxley and the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot. The Brave New World was about a perfect society with minor defects. There are some people that want to go beyond what they can do and explore. The government will not allow any exploring of science unless needed or they will get sent off. The poem is about a potential lover. The poem explains the...
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