Poetic maturity in T.S. Eliot’s “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the waste land
This essay's concern is with poetic maturity, or more specifically, what it means for Eliot to become mature as a poet, the conditions of which I take the conditions of maturity from his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”. It is with this purpose that I look at his poems “The Love Song...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59151 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This essay's concern is with poetic maturity, or more specifically, what it means for Eliot to become mature as a poet, the conditions of which I take the conditions of maturity from his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”. It is with this purpose that I look at his poems “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and The Waste Land, and argue that implicit in both are distinct stages of his developing maturity. |
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