week 13 analysis

This week I will be doing a literary analysis T.S.Eliot’s poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. The theme I seem to she is this idea that the modern world is in ruins yet somehow very beautiful and is deeply meaningful. I also think that the author has multiple sub themes within this be theme, which kind off made it hard for me to focus on only one idea. I think his theme plays out very well because he shows both that we are dying and moserable society yet we still can find the small things in life beautiful. The literary device that i see the most is imagery because he is building these were you can kind off picture it yourself if you close your eyes"Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, 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.Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying: “Stetson!“You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!“That corpse you planted last year in your garden,“Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?“Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?“Oh keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men,“Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again!“You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!”". What i think this tells us about the author is that there is a balance between life as well he is real about what is happening around him because he is paying attention.