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If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
Understand how Eliot uses poetic language and structure to explore characters and themes.
Create poems and other works of art inspired by Eliot.
Understand the impact of history on the creation of literature by researching Eliot's social context.
Engage with modern poetry and poetic devices and their place in literary history.
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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...
