T. S. Eliot's masterpiece of poetry, The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock, follows the compositional experience of a man named Prufrock. Eliot's work laments the physical and intellectual inertia that deprives Prufrock of opportunities in life; through the recurring theme of unfulfilled lustful love. The use of fragmentations and disconnected devices is applied to create a disruption of the sense of mental concentration and to avoid conforming to a nihilistic style. Eliot attracted fame through his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), who sees himself as chef d'œuvre of the modernist movement. Although the character Prufrock gives indications that he was middle-aged, Eliot actually wrote most of the poem in the 1990s, when he himself was twenty-two. His now famous opening lines, comparing the evening sky to "a patient etherized on a table", were regarded with a sense of dismay and an offensive element, especially in an era when Georgian poetry (anthologies showing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the first years of the reign of King George V of England) was welcomed for its derivations from the Romantic poets of the 19th century: artistic, literary and intellectual movements such as that of Caspar David Friedrich .[46]Before understanding Despite the concept of fragmentation, it is crucial to appreciate that the structure of the poem was strongly influenced by Eliot's extensive reading, primarily Dante, but also referencing various literary works of the French Symbolist artistic movement. The epigraph at the beginning of the poem is taken from Dante's Inferno (XXVII, 61-66) and translates as follows: "If only I thought that my answer was made to one who perhaps returns to the world, this language of... .. .. middle of the paper ......or another feature used by Eliot From the contextual context of the author, Eliot continued his interest in fragmentation throughout his career, undergoing fragmentation of mental concentration and images, uses fragments of formal structure to suggest that disconnection, although anxiety-inducing, nevertheless, productive if the poem had been composed exclusively in free verse, the work would have appeared much more nihilistic and would have rejected all moral principles the idea that; life is meaningless. Building on the kind of images Eliot paints with the use of fragments and disconnection, he also suggests that something new can be created from the ruins: the series of hypothetical encounters at the center of the poem are recapitulated and discontinuous but nevertheless lead to some kind of dark epiphany rather than simply lead us aimlessly.

Topic > T. S. Eliot's masterpiece of poetry, The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock, follows the compositional experience of a man named Prufrock. Eliot's work laments the physical and intellectual inertia that deprives Prufrock of opportunities in life; through the recurring theme of unfulfilled lustful love. The use of fragmentations and disconnected devices is applied to create a disruption of the sense of mental concentration and to avoid conforming to a nihilistic style. Eliot attracted fame through his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), who sees himself as chef d'œuvre of the modernist movement. Although the character Prufrock gives indications that he was middle-aged, Eliot actually wrote most of the poem in the 1990s, when he himself was twenty-two. His now famous opening lines, comparing the evening sky to "a patient etherized on a table", were regarded with a sense of dismay and an offensive element, especially in an era when Georgian poetry (anthologies showing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the first years of the reign of King George V of England) was welcomed for its derivations from the Romantic poets of the 19th century: artistic, literary and intellectual movements such as that of Caspar David Friedrich .[46]Before understanding Despite the concept of fragmentation, it is crucial to appreciate that the structure of the poem was strongly influenced by Eliot's extensive reading, primarily Dante, but also referencing various literary works of the French Symbolist artistic movement. The epigraph at the beginning of the poem is taken from Dante's Inferno (XXVII, 61-66) and translates as follows: "If only I thought that my answer was made to one who perhaps returns to the world, this language of... .. .. middle of the paper ......or another feature used by Eliot From the contextual context of the author, Eliot continued his interest in fragmentation throughout his career, undergoing fragmentation of mental concentration and images, uses fragments of formal structure to suggest that disconnection, although anxiety-inducing, nevertheless, productive if the poem had been composed exclusively in free verse, the work would have appeared much more nihilistic and would have rejected all moral principles the idea that; life is meaningless. Building on the kind of images Eliot paints with the use of fragments and disconnection, he also suggests that something new can be created from the ruins: the series of hypothetical encounters at the center of the poem are recapitulated and discontinuous but nevertheless lead to some kind of dark epiphany rather than simply lead us aimlessly.