The work of a Great American poet- Robert Lowell Robert Lowell was considered the greatest American poet, because his style created an eminent change in American poetry according to Ernest Hilbert. His poem Lord Weary's Castle won him his first Pulitzer Prize (Hilbert, 2). When Lowell expressed h...

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The '[drinking] of coffee' is a menial act, suggesting the inanimate qualities of people in need of stimulus, whilst the indolent conversation which follows indicates the hollow existence of Western aristocratic society; a concept explored further in Eliot's 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock', as '[he has] measured out [his] life in coffee spoons' implying a meticulously planned rationale, investing effort solely in the material tedium of 'drinking coffee'. ...

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