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Consider Eliot's full canon of poetic works, including "The Waste Land," and his plays, among them Murder in the Cathedral.
Consider other modernist poets, such as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Dylan Thomas.
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The Question and Answer section for The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The unpleasant modern world is where "Prufrock" begins. Prufrock, much like da Montefeltro in The Inferno, is confined to Hell; Prufrock's, however, is on earth, in a lonely, alienating city. Prufrock's biggest problem can be found in his social...
Example of Personification:
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Let...
Eliot achieves much of this fragmentation through his exquisite imagery. Whether it is the subliminal comparison between the fog "that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes" (16) and feline movement, a self-conscious dissection of how women's eyes...
