The poems that I examined written by T.S. Eliot were The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. The poems that I scrutinized written by Robert Lowell were Skunk Hour and For the Union Dead.
When viewing the poems that illustrated the similarities between Robert Lowell and T.S. Eliot I noticed that both poets had in common the use of perfect rhymes in some stanzas from their poems. In T.S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the use of a perfect rhyme can be exhibited:.
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.
To roll it toward some overwhelming question, (ll. 87-93) (DeRoche, 337).
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In Robert Lowell's poem The Skunk Hour, the use of a perfect rhyme can be observed:.
Thirsting for .
the hierarchic privacy.
of Queen Victoria's century,.
she buys up all .
the eyesores facing her shore,.
and lets them fall. (ll. 7-12) (DeRoche, 443).
When I examined the poems by Lowell and Eliot I realized that the two also shared similarities in the use of grammatical punctuation. The two poets tend to use ellipsis, hyphens, and semicolons. I also noticed that the two poets have dialogue in some stanzas of their poems. In Robert Lowell's poem The Skunk Hour, the use of hyphens, dialogue, semicolons, and ellipsis can be seen:.
A car radio bleats,.
"Love, O careless Love ." I hear .
my ill-spirit sob in each blood cell,.
as if my hand were at its throat .
I myself am hell;.
nobody's here- (ll. 31-36) (DeRoche, 443).
The common grammatical punctuation marks used by Lowell and Eliot can also be pointed out in Robert Lowell's poem The Love Song of J.
