... "As one of the greatest renovators of the English poetry dialect, whose influence on a whole generation of poets, critics and intellectuals generally was enormous." Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist  movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language ... his masterpiece "has made him the primary figure of modernist poetry both for his peers and for subsequent generations." Eliot's first truly mature piece of verse, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru...

• Word Count: 4134
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

... confidence in his appearance. He's indecisive and unsuccessful in his attempts to communicate with other people, repeating "visions and revisions"(33) and "decisions and revisions..."(48). Eliot uses repetition here to emphasize the concept of Prufrock's alterations in behavior - whether he does change his behavior or not is another issue... most likely he doesn't because he also repeats the question " Do I dare ... over. His obsession with the passage of time is characterized by its repetition throughout the poem, especially the beginning of the poem. Eliot uses time as a tool to shape...

• Word Count: 6460
• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School

... 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 ...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

... the poem "There's a Certain Slant of Light,"" on pages 18 and 274, and the title of the imaginary book, "An Imperial Affliction." - Hazel recites the "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T. S. Eliot on the plane. - Hazel reads "The Red Wheelbarrow," by William Carlos to Augustus when they were going to the hospital in an ambulance. Conflicts - The central conflict is between the ... ...

• Word Count: 2713
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... modernism while also reflecting his Victorian predecessors. Marlow is in many ways a traditional hero: tough, honest, an independent thinker, a capable man. Yet he is also "broken" or "damaged," like T. S. Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock or William Faulkner's Quentin Compson. The world has defeated him in some fundamental way, and he is weary, skeptical, and cynical. Marlow also mediates between the figure of the intellectual ... ...

• Word Count: 3088
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate