ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dramatic Monologue, Tailcoat, Antihero
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Life (cid:498)the love song of j. alfred prufrock(cid:499) (cid:523)1915/1917(cid:524) A major shifter in modernist aesthetics: his (cid:498)the wasteland(cid:499) became. American born-left usa and became a british subject. He demanded a higher degree of complexity and learnedness from art the symbolic setting of the 20th century poetry, to him, was supposed to be difficult and elite: should appeal to our more lofty abilities as thinkers. Originally prufrock among the women: hint. A poem concerned w modern urban and social existence. Tse valued literary history and canonical tradition. Updates the dramatic monologue with irregular and unmetrical rhythms of the modern world. Poem echoes past traditions to adhere to their structure. Wants you to understand what he is talking about in his poems, but he doesn"t want it to be easy: (cid:498)tradition id a matter of much wider significance. )t cannot be inherited and if you want it you must obtain it(cid:499: (e"s just a person. As exercise in anticlimax-that is, readerly disappointment.
