... embodies the spirit of his times: that is, whether Eliot uses 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 ... choice were extended: at 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 ...

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