... . He gained their ability to write poetry filled with wisdom while adding his own passionate language. Eliot's most famous works included The Waste Land (1922), "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917), "Cousin Nancy" (1924), The Criterion (1922-1939), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), Four Quartets (1936), The Cocktail Party (1950), The Confidential Clerk (1954), and The Elder Statesman (1958). His early works ... , like "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and The Waste Land, formulate on a wide range of cultural reference to depict a modern world that is in ruins yet somehow beautiful and d...

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... poets by studying a couple of the poems they had written. 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 ... 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 ... . (ll....

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... 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'. The juxtaposition between &apos ... ...

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