Anlysis of dream on Monkey Mountain by Derek Wallcot and The love Song by Alfred Prufrock
The conscious and subconscious are two important themes in discussing both the 1919 poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, and the Derek Walcott's 1967 play "Dream on Monkey Mountain." In discussing the authors use of the conscious and subconscious in these two works many similarities and differences can be found. In T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Eliot startles the reader by using dramatic shifts in and out of the main character Prufrock's thoughts (subconscious) and what is consciously going on. The Poem is about a timid and downcast man in search of meaning, of love, in search of something to break him from the dullness and superficiality that he feels his life to be. Eliot lets us into Prufrock’s world exploring his progression of emotion from timidity to self-disparagement and, ultimately, to despair of life. In this "Love Song," Prufrock searches for meaning and acceptance by the love of a woman, but fails miserably because of his lack of self-assurance and because of his mouse-like meekness. Prufrock is a man for who, it seems, everything goes wrong, and for whom there are no happy allowances. In a very real way, Prufrock's story is twentieth century mankind's story,
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Approximate Word count = 1397
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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