... 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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... 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 to describe Prufrock's views of hell and is a premonition of his lonely demise as he states on line 125. "I do not think they will sing to me " (125), showing that his I not a man ... ...

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