The Writing Techniques of T.S Eliot -----Analysis of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Abstract: During T.S. Eliot’s（1888-1965）whole life he left us a lot of fortune, and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is considered one of Eliot's finest and most important works. A lot of scholars and critics have done different researches on this poem. The author of this paper tries to analyze one of this poem from the perspective of T.S. Eliot’s poetics.
Although his actions are very insane, they can be seen as rational to reader considering hedonism. Devotion to pleasure, hedonism, makes Dorian be deceitful about his true self by deflecting the attention of the public from the mad man to the beautiful and intelligent gentlemen. Dorian is, young, sensitive, and emotional, meaning that he is susceptible to manipulation. Lord Henry takes advantage of that opportunity and gives Dorian the yellow book; this book opens up the world of hedonism and aestheticism which eventually turns his young life into an eternal oblivion of misery. Dorian develops a fear of aging so he tries to live his life as if it was his last day on earth.
The Second part is concerned with the great war poet, Wilfred Owen. Talking about his importance as a poet and the disagreement of men of literature about him. Followed by a simple answer to the question: How does Owen represents his school. Finally, we will make a brief illustration of six of Owen's poems. Historical Background .... they are fortunate who fight For gleaming landscapes swept and shafted And crowned by cloud pavilons white.
Homework Questions ENGL 115-19; Wednesday, 3/23/11 Edna St. Vincent Millay: “The Spring and the Fall” The first stanza describes the generally happy beginning of a love story. Where do you find the first hint of an unhappy ending? In the 10th line of the poem, it is said that "the rooks went up with a raucous trill".This shows that an unhappy ending is coming because the rooks already symbolize the bad condition.Moreover,it continues "He laughed at all I dared to praise,and broke my heart,in little ways." Wilfred Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth” How would you characterize the speaker’s state of mind? This poem points ironically to the speaker himselfvwho died when he was only 25.Owen was a young officer in the trech warfare of 1917-1918.He was shot,a week before the end of the First World War as he led his men acriss the canal.The butchery of war horrified Owen and he reflected his fears and emotions to his poem.
Thus, the poem is his perspective, his interpretation, his perception of the events of that day and consequently – as inferred within the poem-of their lives together. For this reason, it is subjective. Through the use of flashback, we are given a double perspective, one of the young, naive Ted Hughes who has limited life experiences and is about to fall in love with the young talented American writer on the photograph, and that of an older reflective poet who is influenced by the disastrous relationship that developed. The last line reveals this conflict: • At twenty-five I was dumbfounded afresh By my ignorance of the simplest things. Hughes hindsight doubtlessly creates tension within the poem - tension between what he remembers and what he has since learned.
Not So Sweet Nor Becoming Wilfred Owen was a man of two professions: writing and fighting. As a soldier in World War 1, Owen was horrified by his experiences and the tragedies he witnessed. These memories motivated him to write poems that relayed the truths of war. “Dulce Et Decorum Est” is perhaps the most famous of these pieces. When looking for a poem to analyze, this one jumped out at me; immediately upon reading its title, I thought of another piece of art that references the same phrase.
Ulysses seems to have realized that community is not what he desires by stating “…I mete and dole/ Unequal laws unto a savage race/ That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me” (Tennyson, 3-5). The ideals of a community no longer satisfy this king. This is clearly reiterated with the statement from Ulysses that he “cannot rest from travel…” (Tennyson, 6). If one is to take the idea that Tennyson wrote this poem in order to move forward from his grief; then Ulysses is clearly Tennyson stating that
His disinterest in the world he knows is beautiful confirms the depressed state he is in. Hyperbole: Intentional exaggeration to create an effect. Example: “He would drown the stage with tears..” (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 49) Function: The first player’s performance of the speech leaves Hamlet in an awed state. He then uses a hyperbole to say that if the player were to act out with the feelings that Hamlet himself had, “he would drown the stage with tears”. He uses this hyperbole to both show his admiration for the actor’s skill, and to reflect the passions that he is feeling toward his father’s death and his quest for
Half-caste John Agard is saying that people are to obsessed with purity and he is trying to say that people calling him half-caste think he is somehow less pure than them. He is attempting to change that by using phrases like ‘when Picasso mix red and green/is a half-caste canvas’. By using this he is saying you wouldn’t say this about Picasso’s paintings because they are beautiful so why would you say that about a person. The poem is about the poets annoyance and sadness of people using the phrase half-caste. The poem has a sarcastic tone to it and I think it’s to show how he thinks that people are not thinking when they use this phrase, he expresses this by saying “when you say half-caste/yu mean when Picasso/mix red and green/is a half-caste canvas”.
Terence, this is stupid stuff Summary The poem starts out with a jolly (and maybe slightly drunk) guy complaining to a poet named Terence about his poems. He makes fun of how serious and sad his poems are, and says they give him "the belly-ache." He'd much prefer, he tells Terence, to hear something he could "dance to." In the next section, the poet Terence talks back. He tells this guy that if he wants to dance, he'd be better off drinking beer than reading poems.