Eliot, Societal change; Modernist theory. Full Text: PDF. References Banerjee, R. ResearchGate Eliot, T. Collected poem. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The waste land. Horace Liveright, USA. A commentary. Criterion, 12 48 , Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions. Prufrock, A. The love song. Durgapur Durgapur, West Bengal, India. Schneider, E. Eliot continued to publish poetry, drama, and critical prose for the next four decades. Having written one expressionist-influenced play, Sweeney Agonistes , in — first performed in , Eliot turned after his conversion to a very different sort of ritualized drama, the pageant play.
As editor at Faber and Faber, Eliot promoted the work of many younger writers, including W. After the Second World War, Eliot, now an influential literary editor, left lyric poetry behind in order to write increasingly mainstream drama. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in Cinema and the Classics.
Eliot's poetry and contemporary film themes, motifs, techniques 3. French Impressionism 3. German Expressionism 3. Neo-Realism 3. Soviet Montage 3. Montage in T. Eliot's work. Romance — in modern literature, i. Realism — literature that attempts to depict life in an entirely objective manner, without idealisation or glamour, and without didactic or moral ends.
Realism may be said to have begun with such early English novelists as Defoe, Fielding, and Smollett, and to have become a definite literary trend in the 19th century. Modernism is the art of the tradition of the new. It is experimental, formally complex, elliptical, and tends to associate notions of the artist's freedom from realism, materialism, traditional genre and form, with notions of cultural apocalypse and disaster.
It is disputable when it starts French symbolism; decadence; the break-up of naturalism and whether it has ended. Their works are aesthetically radical, contain striking technical innovations, emphasise spatial and rhythmic as opposed to chronological relations, tend towards ironic modes. Postmodernism — the new avantgarde literature which partly carried modernism further, partly reacted against it — e. What it consistently pretended to be and sometimes actually was was new.
It was determinedly self-destructive and attempted to cut off its branch of the past, by proposing entirely new methods, a fresh canon of authors Nietzsche, Freud, Saussure, Proust and a new register of allusions. Realism, according to many critics, is characterised by its attempt objectively to offer up a mirror to the world , thus disavowing its own culturally conditioned processes and ideological stylistic assumptions.
It also, modelled on prose forms such as history and journalism, generally features characters, language and a spatial and temporal setting very familiar to its contemporary readers and often presents itself as transparently representative of the author's society. The hegemony of realism was challenged by Modernism and then postmodernism, as alternative ways of representing reality and the world. Alfred Prufrock is afraid to eat a peach because he is afraid of ridicule and afraid of women, or at least of their judgment and rejection.
Daring to eat a messy peach is symbolic of everything Prufrock is afraid to do for fear of what other people might think. When Prufrock says he has measured his life in coffee spoons, he is alluding that he has spent a lot of time participating in social coffee or tea. If his life can be measured in coffee spoons, then he has done little else to provide a unit of measure; he has spent much of his time simply being social.
What is the yellow fog compared to in a simile? How is the fog like such a creature? The yellow fog is compared to a cat. He cannot act and is paralyzed, blocked by his own thoughts.
The color yellow, often associated with cowardice, just supplements this idea. It expresses the hollowness, infertility, the psychological trauma, the spiritual languor, the frustration and the hamletic state of mind of the post war generation. Although many critics are divided on what the actual main dilemma in the poem is, generally it is accepted that the correct answer would be B.
He wants to ask a beautiful woman to marry him, because he loves her. Alfred Prufrock: J. Alfred Prufrock is a lonely, middle-aged man who moves through a modern, urban environment in a state of confusion and isolation. He worries about the contrast between the sordid everyday world he inhabits and the world of imagination—of mermaids riding on the foam—that his heart yearns for. Prufrock is overeducated, fearful, timid, overly sensitive, and graceful. He continuously ponders lost opportunities and unanswered questions.
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