Week FiVe! Divine Eliot!!

[giovanna68]

T.S Eliot was caught up in the vanguard of the artistic movement known as Modernism. Eliot's work The Love Letter's of Alfred J. Prufrock begins with a passage from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, fromthe section where he writes about Hell. I love Dante's work and named my son after him. The Divine Comedy was bought back to life by William Blake as it had been hidden away for many years, thank you Bill ! Prufrock is a middle aged man, who's poem shocks and offends, especially when every one was use to the flowery poetry of The Romantics. Prufrock stream of thought is analysed through the poem. He complains about his physical and intelllectual being and not aspiring to anything. How he has had lost loves, opportunities in life just pass him by, with quite an uneventful and unwillingness to want to change this. Is he at home or wandering the street or it just may be past experiences, images in his sub conscious or mental recollections.
The poem is modelled and influenced by Dante Alighieri's, Divine Comedy. Going through different stages as Dante does. He seems stuck in this hell that he is unable to free himself from and just keeps slipping back, negative always question. He is never able to reconcile his thoughts and understanding with his feeling and will. Was this the face paced, machine age where everything that's new is better, the pressures of Modernism, are we living in a place we really want to be and do what society is instructing us to? Poetry and Art will save our souls thank God for that!!








Just some of Blake's works that Dante inspired in him, just beautiful!!