An Analysis Of Thomas Stearns Eliot: A Study Of Metaphor

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Introduction
When it comes to literature, there have been various attempts to define it. You can define it, for example, as ‘imaginative’ writing in the sense of fiction which is not literally true. However, I firmly believe that literature is an art and there are more than one ways of looking and intepreting it, because there is no right or wrong in literature. Besides, literature is like a tree with it’s own branches called poetry, drama, nonfiction and fiction. But then, I will be foccusing on poetry throughout this writing. In order to understand and interpret poetry, we study many techical factors such as figures of speech whose effect is to connect ideas in striking and unusul ways.
Thus, the hero of this essay will be one of the figures of speech which is …show more content…

Eliot: A Study of Metaphor Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot) was born in the year 1888 at St. Louis, Missouri. He is the 7th and the youngest child to his parents. He persued his studies to Harvard University. He is an American-English poet, playwright, editor, literary critic, and leader of the modernist movement in Literature. He wrote ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock when he was 22 years old. He also won the Prize in Literature for the year 1948.
I have chosen T.S Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ poem as one of my content for this essay, in order to investigate the use of metaphor in the text to create meanings. Before, departuring to my destination which is the analysation, let us look at its summary. According to David Ward in T.S. Eliot Between Two Worlds (1973), ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, should be seen as an essay of the soul which takes place in a world which we, as readers, are expected to recognize as like the world we ordinarily call real. But then, illusion implies a

reality; and reality lies behind the shadow world of illusion and deceit in both epigraphs and the poem. In another word, the poem is a love song which expresses love in a world of

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