... is indescribable, especially if it is found in a piece of writing. Knowing that another human being has suffered or indulged the same way can give one a sense of comfort. Certain poems will "pierce" certain people, while other will not. Just as human beings are individuals, one poem can have a million different interpretations from a million people. What may make one person cry ... a poem, it's as if it was specifically written for me. I am in a serious relationship, so it is easy for me to get lost in the world of romance. It is poems like this which bring me back to reality and remind...

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... meaningful. The title character of "Profrock" is a perfect example: solitary, neurasthenic, overly intellectual, and utterly incapable of expressing himself to the outside world. He frequently mixes his life with his poems. The opening stanza in the poem is an epigraph from Dante's Inferno. An epigraph is a quotation set at the beginning of a literacy to suggest the theme of the poem. "The ... ...

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... 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 cause of poetic drama.The topic martyrdom attracted Eliot ,as did the nature ... ...

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