A Fault View at Prufrock
"Let us go then you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised on a table;" - T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred "Prufrock" published in 1918. These 3 lines at the beginning of the poem followed by an Epigraph from Dante's inferno can looked at as the beginning of the modernist movement. The use of the fancy (in Coleridge's words) of walking into the evening sky which is then subverted by the cold line which aptly makes you numb. Romanticism was still around when the poem was written and practiced. However times for Romanticism were slowly fading away. There was competition for good poetry from the Victorians that followed them and the prospect of the first World War made it so that the world couldn't be looked at in terms of pleasure and greater spiritual endeavours. T.S. Eliot can be classified as a modernist. The modernist sentiment of making so that poetry scares and terrifies was a sentiment was i...