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"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism And T.S. Eliot
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Surrealism is a dangerous word to use about the poet, playwright
and critic T.S. Eliot, and certainly with his first major work, "The Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ". Eliot wrote the poem, after all, years before
Andre Breton and his compatriots began defining and practicing "surrealism"
proper ....
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....arged by
echoes, often heroic," of other writers.
The juxtapositions mentioned earlier are evident even at the
poem's opening, which begins on a rather sombre note, with a nightmarish
passage from Dante's Inferno. The main character, Guido de Montefeltro,
confesses his sins to Dante, assuming that "none has ever returned alive
from this depth"; this "depth" being Hell. As the reader has never
experienced death and the passage through the Underworld, he must rely on
his own imagination.... |
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