of his love and lust for women quite openly while Eliot seems more wary of the temptations they pose. This slightly Puritanical outlook that Eliot had brought with him over from America to the more relaxed Europe is one that can be seen quite clearly in A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. This poem was a pointed attack on all the well-dressed, upstanding bourgeois who loved their material wealth but had nothing when it came to love or happiness. But not only that, in a way it is a love song of unrequited
E. Formal Analysis Essay #2 Modernism & Imagism in the Early 20th Century In the early 20th century until about 1960, there were two really important movements in literature and the arts. The first was introduced in the mid-19th century and was called “Modernism”. The second was introduced around 1910 and it was called “Imagism”. Both of these movements were very apparent in literature at the time. For the purpose of this essay, we will only focus on poetry by T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg, although
1) I chose boots as a central item of clothing. Boots, in the context of war, are common. They unify all military men and represent a stereotype of power. Power, however, leads to stratification thus diminishing this unity. Men of all ranks march heavy and project their overactive sense of pride yet the boots worn by men so similar may represent vastly different authority levels. To clarify, authority itself is not an issue. It is the underlying hypocrisy and absurdity and ultimately, blind jingoism