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Passive Lovers

T. S. Eliot was the dominant force in twentieth-century British and American poetry. With poems such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, he introduced an edgy, disenchanted, utterly contemporary version of French Symbolism to the English-speaking world. Most poets recognize that in producing a sensational poetic work, many concerns arise with the use of various literary tools to convey ideas, opinions or simply an observation. Through vivid imagery and metaphors, TS Elliot in his "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" delivered readers the thoughts and emotions of a tormented character J. Alfred Prufrock and also reflected self-debasing nature of a passive lover's effort that kept deteriorating till it finds hellish discomfort in isolation.

As a poet explicates an event in poetry, he does his best to capture the audience, to entertain the reader. The reader must be drawn into the situations of the event and be able to form opinions as he/she goes along. The......

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