Paper 2 Module B Flashcards
What are Eliot’s views on modernism and romanticism?
Modernism - truth seeking pessimists
Romanticism - optimistic romantics
What are Elliot’s key influences?
Dante and dante’s inferno which he saw saw as perfect
What is a quote for time for the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
” There will be time, there will be time,
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
What is a quote for place for the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
” And in have know the eyes already known them all -
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase.”
What is a quote for time for Preludes?
” With the other masquerades,
That time resumes.”
What is a quote for place for Preludes?
” With all it’s muddy feet that press
To early coffee stands.”
What is the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock about?
A guy who is to scared and insecure to ask a question which he so clearly deems important. He is socially present but not social.
What is preludes about?
The decay of modern living the negative imagery shows the views of an ominisent Narrator.
What are 5 key points to T.S. Eliot’s background?
- philosophy assistant in 1906
- moved to brain in 1914
- studied philosophy in France
- published Prufrock in 1917
- awarded Nobel price in literature in 1948
