T.S. Eliot AO5
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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 of 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
Hollow Men
Journey of the Magi
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