INTRODUCTION
T.S Eliot wrote The Love song of Alfred J. Prufrock while he was still at Harvard at the age of twenty two. While it was published only five years later when he was in Munich, the poem survived the test of time to become highly celebrated, all across the world. What we now know as the modernist era also witnessed the emergence of the new field of psychology alongside major changes in writing. The most influential psychological innovator at this time was without doubt, Sigmund Freud. The Austrian’s several experiments to fathom the human mind had led to the springing up of several psychoanalytical institutes starting 1910, the same year the poem was published. It was Freud that developed what would soon come to be known as the science of psychoanalysis and his early techniques of focused on hypnosis, although he soon developed a new
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Similiarly, though a literary text or a poem may bot speak of real events, it is still based on experiences and the authors own conscious that he bestows upon the character. Dreams and Literature are both different means of exploration of one’s own internal thoughts, fantasies and fears. And while the poet translates his own experiences into words for a poem, a psychotherapist relies solely on the patient’s own account for his therapy. Both dreams and poetry have multiple layers that require further delving to completely understand, even if they might seem outrightly obvious.
The narrative of some poetry, including TLS is very similar to the unfolding of a session of psychoanalysis. Just like the poet translates his own experience and memory into words in a poem, the patients verbal account of his own experiences is what a psychotherapist relies on. “They both involve a translating of the consciousness into the semiotics of communicable language systems.” (CITE
The illustrative thoughts, poems, figurative letters and autobiographical
Aboriginal spirituality as determined by the Dreaming The important tenet that reinforces Aboriginal spirituality is a idea known as the Dreaming Dreaming is the unseen spirit world. It is not incomprehensible and in the past. It is realism ‐ Dreaming is expressed in ceremonies, dance, song and art. It is both individual and communal
The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock written by T.S. Elliot, is the despondent poem of a middle-aged man named Prufrock suffering from an acute spiritual malaise due to his monotonous and tentative existence. Eliot beautifully told Prufrock's tale through careful use of literary devices. A device that appeared frequently throughout the poem was an allusion. These allusions were used to easily bring forth the impressions and characteristics conveyed by the sources alluded to, as well as creating flexibility for his readers. Hamlet, To His Coy Mistress, and The Bible are a few notable sources that Eliot alludes to within the poem.
The purpose of this paper will be to to summarize Anne Fadiman’s use of familiar, formal, and narrative voices in her essay “Night Owl.” The analysis will primarily focus on understanding Fadiman’s choice of using an informal voice over taking a formal approach. The different components such as figurative speech will also be considered. In Anne Fadiman’s “Night Owl,” she attempts to break the traditional association of nighttime with evil and negativity by pointing out connections with positive accomplishments in fields such as science and literature. She compares the key differences between herself, a person who is active and wakeful at night, to a morning person, her husband.
Peyton Williamson Professor Tanya Boler English 223301 March 23, 2015 Analysis of the Modern Connections Present in “The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Elliot was one of the most well-read literary composers and seemed to be his own endless book of literary references. His mind could simply make literary connections in a work without his actual conscious consent. There were times when his own literary works were made up almost entirely of allusions to other works of literature.
Who was the American philosopher who authored a textbook in 1890 for the emerging discipline of psychology? D. “William James was a legendary teacher-writer who authored an important 1890 psychology text”.(P. 5) 6. The personality theorist, Sigmund Freud, was an Austrian B. According to online sources such as Guide Top Psychology and The Atlantic, Sigmund Freud was a physician and professor of medicine, developed his theories about psychoanalysis while studying hysteria and compulsion neurosis.
Poetry is a work of art giving strength to those who have no way to explain how they feel. Edgar Allen Poe had a dreary pitter patter manner of writing poems which were depressive due to loss of his thirteen-year old wife. Another example is Anne Sexton who had a mental illness and used writing as a manner to escape. The grandiose praise of Icarus’s feat of flight struts gracefully through Anne Sexton’s “To a friend whose work has come to triumph”; Through her exquisite diction, Anne Sexton shed light on the fact success is success even if it ends dramatically.
In Mr. King’s essay, The Symbolic Language of Dreams, his process and techniques describes is very similar to people on a clinical therapeutic spiritual self-discovering journey in which dreams are very much part of the process. Most experience writers have the gift of using life experiences as a flipbook of ideas for personalities, events, and settings for their book. For example, Danielle McGee, a friend of mine, wrote a story about a witch turning a guy into an umbrella. She was angry with her landlord thus using him as person who was changed. Being able to use lucid dreaming or being in a meditative state to recall his memories or dreams is a known technique.
]Words can paint a picture just as a picture can tell 1,000 words. There are times when literature and paintings can portray similar feelings and thoughts about the same topic. For example, the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and the artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo were both on the same page when telling the story of Iphigenia and her sacrifice. Tennyson and Tiepolo both capture Iphigenia as a helpless woman who is defenseless and broken down while being watched by everyone during her sacrifice. Tennyson captures Iphigenia by using descriptive and rhythmic word choice that paints a picture of Iphigenia to the readers.
The poetry component of the form allows vivid imagery. The traditional form of prose has dissolved into an imagistic stream of consciousness, which reflects the narrator’s dissolving sense of
A client needed to work with the therapist to ‘decode’ the dreams and gain access on one’s “repressed” information about self. Carl Gustav Jung (1875- 1961) was a “Neo- Freudian”. Though he agreed with some parts of Freud’s work, he rejected and modified other portions. Jung disagreed with Freud’s idea that dreams contained hidden meanings that needed to be interpreted, i.e. he rejected the idea of a “manifest content”. Jung formulated a new theory on dreams.
Modernism was a period in the early twentieth century that often dates back to the publication of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” This movement broke the traditional ways of form, concepts, and style found in poetry and allowed poets to freely express their ideas and beliefs through various ways such as free verse, fragmentation, allusions, imagery etc. T.S. Eliot is known for modernizing himself on his own by using fragments that incorporate multiple voices into his work. Eliot’s use of fragmentation and allusions in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and The Waste Land demonstrates his belief that modern society is disordered and chaotic and his realization that reality is too disjointed to understand. Fragmentation
1. The psychoanalytic analysis in general Psychoanalytic criticism was developed by Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. His theory is based on conscious and unconscious functioning, stages of growth, developments in human behavior and normal and abnormal experiences. If we apply some psychoanalytic techniques like flashbacks, childhood memories and regression, we can uncover the hidden meanings, motivations, repressed dreams and wishes within the text. Major principles of Freud’s theory are the models of human psyche, the psychosexual stages, defense mechanism, the Oedipus complex, dreams and dream symbols.
Psychoanalytic Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is reflected as the forefathers of psychology and founder of psychoanalysis. Based on Freud’s theories, psychoanalytic therapy is a type of treatment that tends to observe at the background from early childhood to perceive if these situations have affected the individual’s life, or to current issues. (Counselling Directory, 2014) This therapy discovers how the unconscious mind empowers thoughts and behaviors, with the purpose of offering insight and resolution to the person seeking therapy. This form of therapy is a long-term treatment whereby it can take duration up to weeks, months or even years depending on the complexity of the patient being explored.
Eliot uses tradition and personal innovation, combined with the revitalization of the twentieth-century British poetry, which leads to poems full of vitality. Based on the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” this paper explores the poet 's exploration and innovation in the aspects of poetic skills and content. The early works of Eliot are in a low tone, and he often uses association, metaphor, and suggestion to express modern people 's depression. The famous poem “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" uses the inner monolog of the protagonist’s desire to love and fear of the contradictory attitude of love to illustrate modern emptiness and cowardice. From the content, the reader gradually learns the poem is about a middle-aged man.