... Robert Lowell did share similarities in their styles of writing. 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 similarities between Robert Lowell and T.S. Eliot I noticed ... that both poets had in common the use of perfect rhymes in some stanzas from their poems...

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• Grade Level: High School

... humanity's) decline to a trite and lifeless existence. The modern banality of civilisation is further presented as the speaker 'drank coffee, and talked for an hour'. The '[drinking] of coffee' is a menial act, suggesting the inanimate qualities of people in need of stimulus, whilst the indolent conversation which follows indicates the hollow existence of Western aristocratic society; a concept explored further in Eliot's 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock', as '[he has] measured out [his ... ] life in coffee spoons' implying a meticulously planned rationale, investi...

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... 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), and The Elder Statesman (1958). His early works, like "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and The Waste Land, formulate on a wide range of cultural reference to depict a modern world that is in ruins yet ... amusement to confront important social problems, such as his poem "The Love ...

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• Grade Level: High School