"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism And T.S. Eliot
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Surrealism is a dangerous word to use about the poet, playwright
and critic T.S. Eliot, and certainly with his first major work, "The Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ". Eliot wrote the poem, after all, years before
Andre Breton and his compatriots began defining and practicing "surrealism"
proper ....
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.... best explain any similarity
"strangely evocative explorations of the symbolic suggestions of objects
and images." Its unusual, sometimes startling juxtapositions often
characterize surrealism, by which it tries to transcend logic and habitual
thinking, to reveal deeper levels of meaning and of unconscious
associations. Although scholars might not classify Eliot as a Surrealist,
the surreal landscape, defined as "an attempt to express the workings of
the subconscious mind by images without ....
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