The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock concept
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Items in this lesson
Slide 1 - Slide
Slide 2 - Slide
Why is the title strange to begin with?
Slide 3 - Open question
Slide 4 - Slide
Slide 5 - Slide
Why did he start in Italian?
Slide 6 - Open question
What is an allusion and why is it characteristic for Elliot's poetry?
Slide 7 - Open question
Slide 8 - Video
Who are meant with You and I?
Slide 9 - Open question
Why is this line so strange?
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You compare a romantic line with a unromantic line.
B
You compare something beautiful in nature with an etherized patient.
Slide 10 - Quiz
In the poem there is a mention of bodyparts. Can you name at least 3 of them at the end of the poem?
Slide 11 - Open question
The word "Question" is featured a lot in this poem. Like a rondo in music has a reoccurring motif. Why is that important in modernist poetry?
Slide 12 - Open question
This is what film directors call "a jumpcut." Could you explain what it is?
Slide 13 - Open question
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