T.S. Eliot AO5

Prufrock

‘prison of solitariness’ - Seamus Heaney

Prufrock - women (also AO3)

‘[viewed] women from a literary distance’

Portrait of a Lady

‘The poem depicts the emptiness and sterility og the life of a cultured woman surrounded by ‘bric-a-brac’’

Portrait (society)

‘social malice’ to the poem- speaker is suspended between feelings of attraction and repulsion.

Preludes

‘the images […] imply an ache, a yearning after significance while significance is withheld.’ - J.C.C. Mays

Preludes (Eliot)

‘[he] illustrated how embracing materialism leads to a black void empty of meaning and haunted by despair’

Prufrock (society)

‘The inescapability of social conventions and the stifling prescriptions of polite decorum constitute a new kind of infernal entrapment’ - Seamus Heaney

Prufrock (New England)

‘A voice from the depths of Hell […] [in] genteel New England society’ Seamus Heaney