Poetry is essentially derived from the manifesto of ideas, emotion and theories we hold as important. Moreover, symbolism, the representation of an idea through an object or person, can be used to condense the ideologies and perspectives of a specific society or individual into a poem. T.S. Eliot i...
Alfred Prufrock, written by T.S. ... T.S. ... Eliot uses questions as a way to show how Prufrock escapes having to act with courage and decisiveness. ... Eliot uses an insect metaphor to illustrate how Prufrock feels judged by everyone all the time. ... Eliot plays with minor themes like beauty, age, and women, to show Prufrock's state of paralysis. ...
T.S. Eliot is the name of a major poet in the English-speaking world of the twentieth century. ... Eliot is remarked as "not only a great sorcerer of words, but the very key keeper of the language" by Igor Stravinsky. ... The poem's speaker Prufrock, seems to be addressing his possible lover. But Prufrock is confused about how to approach that woman. ...
Assignment Discuss how this passage presents the decline of humanity and spirituality, to an infertile and banal existence in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." ... In this opening section, Eliot alludes to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, where 'April with his showres soote/ The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'. This description starkly contrasts with Eliot's pessimism; by taking these images of rebirth and abundance and opposing their sanguinity, Eliot is able to portray a drastically incongruent view of this change in a dark and ominous tone. ... The ...
