When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherised upon a table; (lines 1-3)

In merely the first few lines of T.S. Eliot's poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, there is clear evidence of rhythm. Eliot follows many different rhyme patterns and beats per line. Occasionally he will have seven syllables per line, whereas in the next line he may jump to thirteen. However, the poem retains its rhythm, and its lively character, shown by lines fifteen and sixteen: The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,..." The rhyme scheme differs, however, throughout the poem.

Self-consciouslooking at the full moon. (lines 1-3)

The resurrection of Lazarus in the books of Luke and John are referred to in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock likens himself to Lazarus, just as he did with Polonius. However, Lazarus, as opposed to Polonius, was a heroic character who held respect. Prufrock says, "I am Lazarus, come from the dead, / Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all..."(line 95,96) Clearly, Prufrock is neither a prophet, nor a great sage; he is merely an unheroic, inhibited, early twentieth-century young man. Eliot makes another reference to The Bible with a scene from the book of Mark. Prufrock is so self-conscious that he has "seen [his] head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,..." (line 82-83) like that of John the Baptist-a great prophet. Prufrock certainly is no prophet, which he exclaims in line 84, and he is well aware of his own mortality. T.S. Eliot's use of The Bible in the scene referring to the book of Mark is fairly insignificant, yet his use of it shows Eliot's familiarity with The Bible. Eliot makes use of his vast education in order to create his poetry. His experiences in the first half of the twentieth-century were insignificant compared to a man of the second half of the twentieth-century. This man was Allen Ginsberg, who led an particularly outgoing life entirely opposite of the private life of T.S. Eliot.

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I

T.S. Eliot was influenced in a scholarly manner his entire life. Eliot's parents were well off, and he attended the finest schools, eventually attending Harvard. He received his degrees rather quickly and moved to England where he would gain residency, and live for the rest of his life. Soon after arriving in England, he fell in love and married a woman with whom he was quickly unhappy. She died fairly young, and Eliot remarried many years later and was finally happy. Eliot was a very private man who forbade a biography to be created about him, so the lack of information is justifiable. However, we can deduce many things from his poetry from the small amount of information we have about his life.

Ginsberg's expansive, free-verse style has generated as much controversy among academics as his profanity has surely outraged millions. But, like Ginsberg himself, the work has endured the brutality of American politics, and he is currently regarded one of the greatest poets in American history. Through, poems such as Howl and America, Ginsberg clearly illustrated his rage and great disappointment with the injustices of American government, the dishonesty

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