Modernism
In the poem, this is the Representative Man of early Modernism.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was published in the 1915 in an issue of this magazine.
What is ‘Poetry: A Magazine of Verse,’?
A poem with lines that are unrhymed and there are no consistent metrical patterns.
What is free verse?
This device is a comparison between two unlike things that uses the words “like” or “as"
What is a simile?
Anxiety, desire, and disappointment are defined as this in the Prufrock poem.
What are themes?
In modernist poems, the character has this form of emotional isolation or dissociation.
What is alienation?
The opening to the Prufrock poem is an excerpt from this famous writer's work.
Who is Dante?
Is the pattern of beats in a line of poetry. It is a combination of the number of beats and arrangement of stresses.
What is meter?
This is a literary device that refers to the projection of human characteristics onto inanimate objects in order to create imagery.
What is personification?
At the end of the poem, these ladies are singing, but do not sing to Prufrock.
This characteristic refers to images, devices, or plots broken and dispersed throughout the poem.
What is fragmentation?
In 1922, T.S. Eliot published this poem which is almost famous as Prufrock.
What is 'The Wasteland'?
Is a technique that makes use of repeated sound at the beginning of multiple words, grouped together.
What is a alliteration?
This occurs when a line is cut off before its natural stopping point.
What is enjambment?
In the poem, Prufrock says he is not Prince Hamlet, but instead sometimes plays this character.
Who is the Fool?
This characteristic of modern poetry concerns the bad or worsening condition of man in many parts of the world.
What is pessimism?
What is Modernism?
This occurs when two or more words that are close to one another use the same vowel sound.
What is assonance?
These are the parts of literature that connect phrases, sentences, ideas, and paragraphs. They can even connect one book to the next.
What are transitions?
The yellow fog in the poem is compared to this creature.
What is a cat?
This characteristic of modern poetry suggests different meanings to different readers.
What is suggestive?
Eliot said his unhappy marriage to this woman helped inspire his poem, 'The Wasteland'.
Who is Vivienne Haigh-Wood?
Is the ordered pattern of rhyming words at the end of each line of a poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
What is an invented perspective that a writer uses. The point of view might be entirely different than their own.
Prufrock describes the women at the party as speaking of this famous artist.
Who is Michaelangelo?