... as the last two lines of the poem. It is the reoccurring theme that makes the poem intense. An allusion is a reference to a person, place, thing, or idea in literature. It is used to bring ideas outside of the written work to imply some meaning upon the work. It is used more for the cultured and upper class. An example of an allusion is in T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" on ... pages 1068-1072. Eliot uses an allusion in the epigraph and cites Dante's "Inferno". It is written in Italian so only ... the most cultured English speakers can understand it. It is used...

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Comparing poems Different poems appeal in different ways and some are not really comparable. I wouldn't attempt to compare The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot - a poem I enjoyed at the age of seventeen - with Milton's Lycidas, which I had to study (and also enjoyed) when I was sixteen. But examiners love to make people 'compare', and so I suppose it is a valid exercise to look in a critical way at two different ... poet's rendering of the same general theme. Here is a request for help with this that I received She said: "I am a GCSE student taking english literature. I have ......

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