ENGL 114W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mental Disorder, Literal And Figurative Language, Tailcoat
29 Mar 2018
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Interpretive argument on the love song of j. alfred prufrock. Eliot, written as a dramatic monologue, is a poem that excoriates the desolation and ostentatious outlook of modern society and reflects the classical modernism and its influence on literature. Eliot was an american poet and wrote this poem after he went to britain during world war 1(mcgeagh). Eliot has made the best use of the concept of " making it new" (fryxell, husboe, longxing) by the presenting a remarkable move from 19th century (a period of romanticism) to 20th century (modernism) (mcgeagh). During world war 1, thousands of innocent people were killed, resulting in the huge decline of humankind; t. s. Eliot, as an awakening member of the civilization wrote this poem to illustrate the deterioration of the urban civilization and modern man"s mental conflict (fryxell, Husboe, guven). through the use of modern poetic techniques. The poem is written in a free verse style.
