... can do so. Though, time and experience made him realise that the ambition of youth is an illusion. The ignorance is what makes youth live and time brings the loss of this ignorance but a gain of wisdom. Society is portrayed as an unreal, dreamlike world where one can preserve the ignorance of youth. He is meditating upon whether to choose to live in a dreamlike, youthful ... is through the filtered window of society. Society has had a dampening effect on the narrator's perspectives, as he laments, "For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, and...

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... into the future, believing that eventually he will have the confidence to complete these goals. The women who speak of Michelangelo are the type who love to talk about the perfect type of man they want. Michelangelo was a artist and sculptor who created many life like sculptures. These sculptures are made ... there are not perfect like the way Michelangelo creates his sculptures. By overlooking most men they are left to fantasize about the type of men they want to have one day. "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons". This quote states that he does not have much self worth for ......

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... , invited Eliot to write for the 1953 Canterbury Festival the poet still chose the martyr for his subject despite a 1932-3 production of Tennyson's play. The conditions were congenial to Eliot.He had a Christian subject and a Christian audience to be gathered at one of Europe's most famous Christian shrines.He had a director withwhom he could work, and he had the chance to further the ... That significance was brought out through the choruses, and the emotional structure of the play is based on them rather than on Thomas's exercise in self-analysis.For that was the point of the Festival;...

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... Prufrock" the issue of loneliness within society is very prominent. The character of Prufrock is an aging man undergoing a phase of uncertainty and negative self-perception. Although Prufrock is at a social gathering, he feels isolated and lonely and this is depicted through the interruption "in the room the people come and go, Talking of Michelangelo". Prufrock focuses on the negative aspects of himself, and think ... himself as a subject of other's scrutiny, a specimen "sprawling on a pin" and ""wriggling on a wall". Social isolation is also presented in stimulus text 2a, ... seeing...

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... translated as: If I thought that my reply would be to one who would ever return to the world, this flame would stay without further movement; but since none has ever returned alive from this depth, if what I hear is true, I answer you without fear of infamy. The speaker, Count Guido da Montefelltro, is imprisoned in ... the Eighth Chasm of Hell. Eliot uses the opening with an allusion to "Inferno" to provide a visual. He compares the earth that Prufrock is ... he has Prufrock warn the reader to not do what he did. The rest of the poem is a tale of a middle aged man who is balding. This...

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... thing men invariably fight for is their money. But I doubt if I'd for mine, anyhow not to shed a lot of blood over it. Yet one thing I do fight for, tooth and nail, all the time. And that is my bit of inward peace , where I am at one with myself. And often I am worsted. Sometimes, although more often in the past I have experienced times when I too ... be worth the fight either. Lawrence is making the reader weigh the importance of these commonly significant things. Perhaps he is saying what is truly significant and important is ones own developed mind and its overall tranquility, not th...

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