Summary MODULE B - T.S ELIOT RESEARCH DOCUMENT (BAND 6 QUALITY)
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English
Institution
12th Grade
The following notes are what I swore by for my internal school exams and HSC exam. Starting with points from the rationale so the syllabus intention is always clear, there's a historically accurate timeline to provide context for Eliot's poetry. Leading onto to the poems: The Love song of J Alfred ...
T.S ELLIOT
Thomas Stearns Elliot (1888, Missouri - 1965, London)
WARNING: HUGE CONTEXT AMOUNTS + INDEPENDENT READING + HARD MODULE
Expectations:
Write how meaning in your prescribed text is shaped by:
● Surrounding context
● Authorial Purpose
● Structure and form of the text and distinctive qualities
● Aesthetic and stylistic feature
● Interplay of ideas with the above elements
,Rationale
● Learn to appreciate (not like but evaluate significance) literary canon
● Close analysis to the construction, content and language
● Requires research and reading involved
● Notions of context- modernism- how it was created and received
● Evaluate perspectives of others
❖ Understand distinctive qualities of texts, notions of textual integrity and significance.
❖ Express complex ideas
Cubism: Multiple sides of one aspect = to reflect the multiple perspectives of humans
A bomb to remove facade of romanticism and show the obliterated chaos of the harsh reality
Timeline
Quotes
The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Quote/s Technique Effect
“When the evening is spread out Simile - Image of a calm beautiful evening (Romantic
, against the sky, poetry) juxtaposed with the half-alive person. Shows
Like a patient etherized upon a Harsh Imagery the re-evaluation of Romantic values.
table” - Motif of the ‘inbetween’ of a sick world: ‘unnatural
Motif (inbetween) sleep’, an ominous hush.
Romanticism
“Half-deserted streets”
In Between
“To lead you to an overwhelming Allusion - Alludes to the concepts and journey of
question....” (existentialism) self-determination and individualism: ‘what is the
meaning of life?’ of the modernist period.
- Search for the meaning in a Godless world.
Existentialism
“Do I dare disturb the universe?” Rhetorical question Existential riddle, will he break the meaningless cycle
of humanity by discovering the meaning of life?
Existentialism
“Of restless nights in one-night Sensory imagery Prufrock dreads the meaningless hookups, still left
cheap hotels” restless and unsatisfied.
Unsatisfaction
“And indeed there will be time” Motif (time) - Allusion to Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
“There will be time, there will be Repetition/anaphora - Shows the urgency of the writer, as if trying to
time” Allusion convince themselves there is enough time to figure
“And time yet for a hundred visions out the meaning of life.
Time
and revisions”
“Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” Rhetorical Questions - Panic/anxiety questioning, not just curiosity.
“So how should I presume?” x2 Repetition - Engages the audience by allowing them to consider
“And how should I begin? the questions themselves, and reflect upon the
meaning of life for ourselves.
- Growing sense of anticipation
“I grow old… I grow old… Rhyme - No longer cares about his appearance; “How his
I shall wear the bottoms of my Dramatic contrast arms and legs are thin!” He has matured, and begins
trousers rolled.” Allusion to accept his fate.
- Sir John Falstaff’s admission: Shakespeare’s Henry
IV Part 2: “I am old, I am old”.
Ageing
“I have measured out my life with Metaphor His life has always been carefully planned and
coffee spoons” predictable, looking back his middle-class
domesticity in his aged state realising his life has
been pointless
Ageing
Purposelessness
“Eternal footman hold my coat, and Metaphor (death) - Challenge to Prufrock’s significance; as death
snicker” Irony anticipates his arrival ironically with a snicker.
- Makes him afraid of what his life has meant
Death
“Would it have been worth while?” Repetition Would it have been worth it to live outside the box
and enjoy life? Or does it not matter, as everything
eventually comes to an end anyway?
“That is not what I meant at all” Aporia
To talk about not being able to talk about something
-- emphasises his point, he struggles to explain
himself, even through the persona he creates
Purposelessness
“Yellow fog that rubs its back upon Anthropomorphism Yellow fog represents sulfur coming from burning
the window-panes…. Licked its Sensory imagery coal in WW1.
tongue into the corners of the Allusion/symbolism Imagery of an unpleasant, clogged up city.
evening” Decay
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