... readily definable and certainly not easily definable within conventional poetic resources. For these purposes the limits of expression in rhythm, the use of images and symbols, allusion and reference and word 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 Prufrock, first published in 1915: Let us go then, you and I, When ... the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-de...

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