1. t.s. eliot's j. alfred prufroc
His language is crude and honest. Each man's view of the world in a post-war society perfectly captures the feeling of the time.
Eliot's work is titled The Wasteland; he believes all of the post-war society is just that, a wasteland. People are isolated and the world is no longer full of meaning, as it had been, before the war. Even sexual relations are hollow and insincere. Similarly, Ginsberg's Howl indicated a crying out. The fact that he uses the word "howl" for its animalistic connotations, as opposed to a more word that seems more human illustrates his view of the world after war. Ginsberg wants to give the reader the feeling of an outcry that has been too long suppressed.
Eliot opens The Wasteland with The Burial of the Dead, in which he describes how "April is the cruellest month." (Eliot 2003) He goes on to recall the past, a pre-World War I world where happiness is abundant, but quickly reverts back to the present, post-war environment, where "the dead tree gives no shelter." (Eliot 2004) It is as if everything is gone, there are no distraction from the cold and harsh reality of life. At the end of The Burial of the Dead, one man asks another, "That corpse you planted last year in your garden/ has it begun to sprout?" (Eliot 2005) Such morbid imagery perfectly depicts the times. The planting of the corpse suggests the end of the war. But nothing has come of it, the corpse has not "sprouted," life has not improved.
Ginsberg describes a similar opening scene. Although his imagery is more vibrant and style more lyrical, his outlook of the world is no more optimistic than that of Eliot's. Ginsberg describes the world as "yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and memories and/ facts and anecdotes and eyeball kicks and shocks of hospitals and jails and wars." (Ginsberg 2447) Most of Ginsberg poem takes a similar style: lists and cold, disturbing descriptions of the world he sees.
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