Within T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” the influences of society and how it can affect the general personality of the public is reflected in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Countee Cullen’s “Yet Do I Marvel”. Eliot uses the contradiction of hollow...

T.S Eliot's The Waste Land begins with a latin epigraph that refers to the story of the prophetess to Apollo, Sibyl of Cumae. Apollo wanted to take the prophetess as his lover and offered her anything she wanted in return. Sibyl asked to live as...

In a radical attempt to forge a new poetic medium, the poetry of TS Eliot possesses an enduring appeal due to its ability to lament universal concerns of the modern era while also subverting conventional literary content and structure. The poems ‘...

The conflict between humanity and the natural world is one that spans back into an ancient past, perhaps beginning with the myth of Prometheus - punished for granting the gift of fire to mankind. Due to this, it is unsurprising that both modernist...

Victorian poet Thomas Hardy- having immensely enjoyed a childhood in the idyllic county of Dorset- was a stoic believer in the transformative power of nature which is explored through settings in both ‘Drummer Hodge’, and ‘Afterwards’ as nature is...

Human nature is inherently chaotic, and one of the few ways in which we can attempt to order our lives is by sharing our grievances and concerns with others—hence, our need for art. Inevitably, poetry such as T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J....

High culture bears a great significance in Eliot’s poetry and in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock he expresses its significance in life and the valuable lessons it can provide. He also manifests his concerns about culture’s influence on his...

The modernism movement has paved way for the present and future of writing in a lot of ways. After World War I had ended, life had changed drastically in contrast to before it had begun. After society had been exposed to the horrific realities of...

Emotionally charged and deeply intellectual literature acts as the voice of an empathic society, reeked by disturbing uncertainty and consumed by an anxious paralysis. T.S Eliot’s confronting suite of poetry forces a reconciliation with the...

Hardy explores the loss of identity in a society that pursues the horrors of war, in “Drummer Hodge”, which considers callousness of the Boer war in its denial of individual humanity and identity. Hardy uses a foreign landscape to contrast the...

The Modernist Era was a time of radical departure from a traditions-orientated society and a journey of discovery to a new form of expression. As a result, the poetry produced during the era was reflective of this change. Specifically, T.S Eliot's...

T.S. Eliot’s poetry offers readers insights into the transcendental realisation of passion for life that can be unveiled through his poetry. Both The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (1917) and The Journey of the Magi (1927) explore the degradation...

To understand T.S. Eliot as a writer, one must look at his own view of creative writing and his passion for tradition. Eliot’s idea of tradition can be misinterpreted: “Most often it is perceived as a smug and pompous intransigence to change…...

Emotionally charged and deeply intellectual literature acts as the voice of an empathic society, reeked by disturbing uncertainty and consumed by an anxious paralysis. T.S Eliot’s confronting suite of poetry forces a reconciliation with the...

Modernism was a radical method that yearned to revitalize the way modern-day civilization considered life, art, politics, and science. This rebellious mindset flourished between 1900 and 1930. With the arrival of World War II, modern-day...

The role of the chorus and its functions is much debated since antiquity, scholars have worked on several theories to reach the truth of the emergence of the chorus as an essential element of tragedy. Aristotle writes in Chapter 18 of Poetics, “...

Dying for one's belief is the most selfless act known to man. Those who die for this very reason are granted martyrdom and become respected for many generations by the descendants of the martyrs. However, if a person plans to die for his belief in...

In T.S. Elliot’s poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock, the author utilizes the structure of the Victorian dramatic monologue to give voice to Prufrock, a man who spends his allotted lines questioning both himself and the world around him. In...

Because a shift to modernity can result in enormous, but detrimental, social change, T. S. Eliot’s dramatic monologue, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, criticizes the changing nature of society, characterized by the abandonment of...

Twenty some years after the death of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot began where Hopkins had left off. In one of his earliest poems, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", Eliot picked up the hopelessness - hopelessness motivated by a sense of...

And would it have been worth it, after all

After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,

Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,

Would it have been worth while

To have bitten off the matter with a smile,

To have squeezed the universe into a ball

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T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" begins with an epigraph from Dante's Inferno. Translated, it reads: "If I thought that I was speaking/ to someone who would go back to the world,/ this flame would shake no more./ But since nobody...

T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a modern journey into and dissection of the mind of a society man, J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock is pushed in two opposite directions by his desires: his desire to have the favor of the woman he...

T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is the story a man contemplating emergence from his solitude into the world, a man capsized by the fear of being misunderstood. In this poem Eliot employs the quest motif in an ironic fashion to...