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Reading Response Woolf

Reading Response Woolf

Q Eliot 1. How does Eliot's poetry depict twentieth-century culture? 2. How would you characterize Prufrock? Is he pitiful? Heroic? How is he a twentieth-century or a twenty-first-century man? What kind of person does he want to be?3. Why is "Prufrock" a "love song"?4. What are a few of the literary references included in "The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?" How do these affect your understanding of the poem?5. What are some elements of "The Waste Land" that you may have found confusing or difficult? Is Eliot being deliberately esoteric? If so, why might this be?6. What classical allusions does Eliot use in his poetry? Which of these did you have to examine more closely? How does understanding these references help you comprehend the poems?

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T.S Eliot is considered to be one of the most talked about Modernist poets because of the contents and presentation of his poems. Many of the greatest poems of the twentieth century were written by Eliot which portrays the troubles of the modern world along with the agonies of the modern man. Modern times are marked by the lack of spiritual thinking which has been best expressed in Eliot’s works. Modernist poets like Eliot has use new forms and technique in his works rejecting the old ones. In the poem “The Wasteland,” Eliot has tried to portray the barrenness after the World war I and II. “