ENGL200B Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Victoriana, Smog, Netflix
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Most famous living poet writing in england by the time of his death. Brought english poetic history as well as french. This is the last gasp of the victorians in which everyone has a growing sense that a disaster is forth-coming, lack of freshness, tiredness. Modernism tried to break through 19th century crap (e. g. too much wordiness and religion) This is eliot"s antidote to late victoriana. Dante was a great hero of eliot. Characteristic of him to quote an ancient text and not even translate it, leading people to work hard to understand what he is trying to say. Written with such a flow that it"s hard to struggle. Slogan is i digress i have social anxiety . Prufrock is afraid of not being understood, being lost, and other people. When the evening is spread out against the sky / like a patient etherized upon a table (2-3) . A shock/defamiliarization of a normal romantic description of a sky.
