Poetry analysis on elliot
It is an examination of the pitiful outcast of a modern man--overeducated, well-spoken, irrational, and emotionally awkward. Prufrock, the poem's speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to "force the moment to its crisis" by somehow fixing their relationship. But Prufrock knows too much of life to "dare" an approach to the woman: In his mind he hears the comments others make about his superiority, and he reminds himself that "presuming" emotional interaction could be possible. The poem moves from a series of fairly definite physical settings--a cityscape (the famous "patient etherised upon a table") and several interiors (women's arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces)--to a series of hazy ocean images carrying Prufrock's emotional distance from the world as he comes to recognize that maybe he is not as superior that he once thought. "Prufrock" is powerful for its range of intellectual reference and also for the loudness of character achieved.In the world Prufrock describes that no sympathetic figure exists, and he must, therefore, be content with silent reflection. In its focus on character and its dramatic delicacy, "Prufrock" anticipates Eliot's late
The first section describes a sunny winter's day, where everything is dead yet blazing with the sun's fire. The second section begins with a lyric on the death of the four elements (air, earth, water, and fire) that have figured so prominently in the previous quartets. The scene then shifts to the poet walking at dawn. He meets the ghost of some former master, whom he does not quite recognize. The two speak, and the ghost gives the poet the burdens of wisdom. The spirit tells him that only if he is "restored by ...refining fire" will he escape these curses. In the third section, the poet declares that attachment, detachment, and indifference are all related. The second part of this section declare that, despite this, "all shall be well." As the poet thinks on the people who have come to Little Gidding seeking spiritual renewal and peace, he realizes that the dead have left us only "a symbol,". The fourth section is a two-stanza piece describing first a dove with a tongue of fire, which purifies and destroys; the second stanza then considers love as the chief torment of man. The final section of the poem brings the spiritual and the elegant together in a final reconciliation. Perfect language results in poetry in which every word and every phrase is "an end and a beginning.". All will be well when the "fire and the rose" become one. "The Dry Salvages" at last offers something akin to hope. While man will always strive to do his best," everyday existence nevertheless contains moments of only half-noticed grace--moments at which "you are the music keep it going While the music lasts." In this poem T.S. Elliot effectively lightens the tone. The poem also makes use of extended "landscapes"--the river and the sea-- that allow Eliot to engage in flights of descriptive language. The Dry Salvages" is interrupted at least twice by the ringing of a bell. In both cases it is a bell at sea, either on a ship or on a buoy. The bell is a human interference that is meant to highlight the complexity and enormity of the sea and this symbolizes that ringing a bell will not disrupt the sea, nothing man can do will phase it.Perhaps the most famous part of this poem is its opening, with the description of the river as "a strong brown god." Eliot i
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Approximate Word count = 1513
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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