modernism & “the love song of j. alfred prufrock ”
DESCRIPTION
Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”. ENG4U. Contents. Introduction: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot Influences Characteristics Famous Modernist Writers Postmodernism: A Caveat T.S. Eliot “ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”. Introduction. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
![Page 2: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”ENG4U
![Page 3: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
ContentsIntroduction: The Waste Land by T.S. EliotInfluencesCharacteristicsFamous Modernist WritersPostmodernism: A CaveatT.S. Eliot“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
![Page 4: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
IntroductionThe Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot, is a seminal Modernist text.It was published in 1922 after undergoing many revisions by Eliot’s good friend, the poet Ezra Pound.It is a long poem characterized by its density and many allusions.Take a look at some quotations from the poem to help you understand the spirit of Modernism.
![Page 5: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
The Waste Land
Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know onlyA heap of broken images, where the sun beats,And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,And the dry stone no sound of water.
![Page 6: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.The Waste Land
![Page 7: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
The Waste Land
![Page 8: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?I never know what you are thinking. Think.”
The Waste Land
![Page 9: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
She turns and looks a moment in the glass,Hardly aware of her departed lover;Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:“Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.”
The Waste Land
![Page 10: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
I sat upon the shoreFishing, with the arid plain behind meShall I at least set my lands in order?
These fragments I have shored against my ruins.
The Waste Land
![Page 11: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Historical InfluencesCharles Darwin (1809-1882) & On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
The beginning of the 20th century: “avant-garde” coinedIndustrialization, railways, advancement in physics, engineering, and architectureSigmund Freud (1856-1939) & subjective realityFriedrich Nietzsche & the will to powerWWI, Rise of Fascism, & the Great Depression
![Page 12: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Literary InfluencesRomanticism (1798-1870) was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution.
subjective
Realism (1820-1920) was a reaction to Romanticism.
objective
Modernism (1910-1965) was a reaction to Realism.
subjective
![Page 13: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
CharacteristicsIsolation & Despair
PessimismNihilism – life is meaningless
Break with Tradition/ExperimentalStream-of-consciousness & subjectivityAbstract & SymbolicJuxtapositionsCollage/Pastiche (“Make it New”)
Shattering Binaries & PreconceptionsPop culture > High cultureFeminism
![Page 14: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Famous Modernist Writers
Virginia WoolfWilliam FaulknerJames JoyceSamuel Beckett
e.e. cummingsWallace StevensEzra PoundWilliam Carlos Williams
![Page 15: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Postmodernism: A Caveat
After-ModernismOne critic's postmodernism is another critic's modernism. - Andreas Huyssen Is there a division between Modernism & Postmodernism?Is Postmodernism a continuation of Modernism?Modernism = Pessimism, Postmodernism = Optimism
![Page 16: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper
The Hollow Men
![Page 17: Modernism & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ”](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062218/56815f2d550346895dcdf85d/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)Born in the USA, but moved to the UK at age 25Said his first marriage, “brought the state of mind out of which came The Waste Land.”Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939, light verse) inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, Cats.Believed his poetry was a combination of American and British influencesDied of emphysema caused by heavy smoking