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- Love's torment: Pain and sexual pleasure in Dante Alighieri and T. S. Eliot.
- Creator
- Romano, Maria Anne., Florida Atlantic University, Paton, Priscilla
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Sexual pleasure, for the male writer, has been accompanied by pain for centuries. Italian poet Dante Alighieri presents a paradoxical treatment of lust by exploring pain and pleasure in Canto XXVI of "Purgatory" in The Divine Comedy. Over four hundred years later, Dante's sexual ideology would evolve into misanthropy and misogyny in T. S. Eliot's poetry. The poetry's aggression towards women begins with "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock," escalates in "La Figlia che Piange" and "Gerontion,...
Show moreSexual pleasure, for the male writer, has been accompanied by pain for centuries. Italian poet Dante Alighieri presents a paradoxical treatment of lust by exploring pain and pleasure in Canto XXVI of "Purgatory" in The Divine Comedy. Over four hundred years later, Dante's sexual ideology would evolve into misanthropy and misogyny in T. S. Eliot's poetry. The poetry's aggression towards women begins with "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock," escalates in "La Figlia che Piange" and "Gerontion," and reaches a violent pinnacle of misanthropy in "Sweeney Erect." Although T. S. Eliot attempted to emulate Dante's passion, his contorted visionary work chose the language of renounced, rather than consummated, sexual desire. Eliot's poetry seeks to mimic Dante's philosophy on love and pain expressed in Canto XXVI of "Purgatory," but all that emanates is a sense of pity, loss, and disgust.
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- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15432
- Subject Headings
- Dante Alighieri,--1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation, Eliot, T S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation, Desire in literature
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- Document (PDF)
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- Let us go then, you and I: Teaching "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
- Creator
- Pence, Ava Whelan., Florida Atlantic University, Childrey, John
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The teaching of the Modernist movement can be frustrating for both teachers and students. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," which is commonly found in high school textbooks, can be daunting for teachers who do not know how to approach it. The purpose of this document is to supply teachers with the knowledge they need to effectively teach this important poem. The Modernist movement as a whole is examined, as is the life of T. S. Eliot. The poem is elucidated on a stanza-by-stanza basis;...
Show moreThe teaching of the Modernist movement can be frustrating for both teachers and students. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," which is commonly found in high school textbooks, can be daunting for teachers who do not know how to approach it. The purpose of this document is to supply teachers with the knowledge they need to effectively teach this important poem. The Modernist movement as a whole is examined, as is the life of T. S. Eliot. The poem is elucidated on a stanza-by-stanza basis; this examination is followed by individual essays on theme, allusion, and metaphor. Last, the teacher will find questions to pose to students and ways in which these issues can be tackled by the student critic.
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- 2001
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12843
- Subject Headings
- Eliot, T S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Love song of J Alfred Prufrock, Poetry, Modern--Study and teaching, Eliot, T S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
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- "Floating realities": Multi-dimensionality in T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
- Creator
- Lewman, Monica Laine., Florida Atlantic University, Paton, Priscilla
- Abstract/Description
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Concentrating on Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," with M. L. Rosenthal's term "floating realities" as my starting point, I discuss how time and its malleable nature relates to Prufrock's "linear reality" and his "non-linear" "floating realities." Prufrock's "linear reality" is the external world of appearances and his internal psychological landscape. I then reveal the "floating realities" that are generated by Eliot's otherworldly allusions. Finally, I discuss chaos theory,...
Show moreConcentrating on Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," with M. L. Rosenthal's term "floating realities" as my starting point, I discuss how time and its malleable nature relates to Prufrock's "linear reality" and his "non-linear" "floating realities." Prufrock's "linear reality" is the external world of appearances and his internal psychological landscape. I then reveal the "floating realities" that are generated by Eliot's otherworldly allusions. Finally, I discuss chaos theory, another way to explore the poem's multi-dimensional nature.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15416
- Subject Headings
- Eliot, T S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation, Eliot, T S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Love song of J Alfred Prufrock, Philosophy in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)