1. English Literature in the Twentieth century
... a technique of fragmentation in order to depict a fragmented society or whether he simply indulges his own personal view of the broken images of a modern world. Critics disagree whether poems like Prufrock or The Waste Land are socially responsible pictures of the modern world or essentially private and personal pieces of self-expression. LANGUAGE NOTE Modernist Poetic Syntax One of the aims ... the same time the limits of syntax as a resource for the expression of meaning were explored. Here is an example from the opening of T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, first publi...
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