... Prufrock," is the interior monlogue of a truly tragic character. It is interesting that Eliot presents the downfall of a man in such a light and humerous manner. The beginning of the poem is very light-hearted as we see an old man trying desperately to escape the effects of aging. This playful tone is evident through Eliot ... 's use of lyrical rhyme and comic imagery. As the poem progresses there is a shift in tone that reveals a much darker nature. The lyrical rhyme is interrupted and the sorrowful imagery creates a somber tone. It is the contrast of these two natures that reveal the tr...

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... created a eminent style that was original and new. 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), ... World War I and many of the population's young men were getting killed. On the contrary, other poems consisted of humor. In a way, Eliot used amusement to confront important socia...

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T.S. Eliot is the name of a major poet in the English-speaking world of the twentieth century. He was a British American poet who was very influential. His masterpiece "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915) gained reputation for the exploration of new poetic rhythms, forms, and themes and captured enormous attention. His experimentation within language and forms brought a rapid change in literary ... tastes. His writings helped usher in a new era in poetry. Eliot is remarked as "not only a great sorcerer of words, but ... the very key keeper of the language" by Igor Stravinsky. The Lov...

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... the object of his bitterly critical poetry. His first important publication, and the first masterpiece of modernism in English, was The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which was later included in Eliot's first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). They believe that this publication marked the maturity of the 20th century poetic revolution, as the reformation of verse rhythms and poetic ... and the spiritual bankruptcy of the post-war epoch and portrayed apocalyptical pictures of total devastation, death and horror caused by the irreversible historic cataclysms. From 1917 to 1...

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... . I discovered the similarities in the styles of writing between the two 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 illustrated the ... were at its throat . I myself am hell; nobody's here- (ll. 31-36) (DeRoche, 443) The common grammatical punctuation marks used by Lowell and Eliot can also be pointed out in Robert Lowell's poem The Love Song of ...

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... work to 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 ... ...

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