8/25/2023 0 Comments Poem love song![]() Alfred Prufrock is a man that expresses no feelings at all that struggles with knowing himself and his true identity, and questions it, he says, “To wonder, ‘Do I dare?’ and, ‘Do I dare?’ / Time to turn back and descend the stair”. Questioning the self, and the world around was a big part of the modern movement which was most often used within the plot or the characters of the story. Elliot uses his Modernist way of thinking to show how not only the way the characters are being portrayed as a modern dilemma caused by questing, and the alienation that is brought upon by the setting of modern urban civilization. Alfred Prufrock throughout the poem gives a sense of irony because he never talks about his feelings of love. One of the characteristics of modernism is that era questioned the self and their identity. The poem is about a middle-aged man who cannot make a progress in life and dare to approach women due to his shyness. The author uses free verse, and irregular rhyming that focus on the movement that the Modernist era has taken. Modernist believed in the quality of thought, expression, and technique. Modernism on the other hand rejected all that the Romantics believed in and threw it all away. Modernism was the movement that came after Romantic era where the emphasis on imagination, emotions, the sublime, the transcendence, nature, and the natural. Writers and artists dedicate what they do to show us what the world was like at a certain point in the world through their eyes. ![]() Literature changes along with the rest of the world. The world is constantly changing and there is nothing one can do about it.
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