Complementary to his depictions of personal misery, are Eliot’s images of city dreariness and degradation that, as a young man, he found distasteful but fascinating. The dissertation also notes and illustrates other writers that significantly influenced the young Eliot during this formative stage of his career. Using Prufrock and March Hare poems that exemplify his observational methods for depicting such ‘affairs’, the dissertation examines a number of factors within this approach it thus determines how Eliot creates the feelings of, at worst ‘despair’ and at best ‘embarrassment’, so that reader recognition of such discomposure is accomplished. The essay notes that Eliot’s early portrayals of ‘unhappiness’ were mostly founded upon dysfunctional relationships and that, moreover, any resulting sadness was brought about by the frailties of the partners (most often the man), irrespective of whether the association was in the process of being imagined, sought, developed or abandoned. The dissertation explores T.S.Eliot’s portrayals of human unhappiness and urban dreariness within his early poetry – specifically his published and unpublished work written during the period 1909-1915. Alfred Prufrock reflects modernism in terms of its content and structure respectively. The poem focuses on the dilemma caused by modern urban civilization and therefore, the purpose of this paper is to show how T.S. Apart from the content, in the form Eliot uses objective correlative to relate feelings through the use of objects. Elisabeth Schneider clarifies that 'The Love Song' is more than a retreat from love, however it is the portrait of a man in Hell, though until his truth is clearly realized, the hell appears to be merely the trivial one of the self-conscious individual in a sterile society (1104). He finds himself in a society which is not different from a hell for him, so Eliot portrays the complexities of the modern world vividly through the inconsistent psychology of Prufrock. His indecisiveness is also caused by self-isolation from the society as a modern man. Hence, the title of the poem is ironic since Prufrock never talks about his feelings of love throughout the poem. The poem is about a middle-aged man who cannot make a progress in life and dare to approach women due to his timidity. Alfred Prufrock' exemplifies Thorne's definition of Eliot's poetic art clearly. Sara Thorne states that unlike the Romantic poets, Eliot attempts to convey the essence of life and the content represents actual contemporary life rather than an escape from the grinding nature of reality (281). It suggests a direct break with English romantic poets such as Coleridge and Wordsworth (Levis 75). Alfred Prufrock carries the characteristics of modernist poetry such as objective correlative, fragmentation, free verse and irregular rhyming.
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