THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT: "THE LONG SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK", Slide di Inglese

Scarica THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT: "THE LONG SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK" e più Slide in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT LIFE • 1888  HE WAS BORN IN MISSOURI • 1910  HE STUDIED IN PARIS AT THE SORBONNE • 1915  HE MARRIED VIVIENNE HAIGHWOOD BUT HIS UNHAPPY MARRIAGE • 1927  HE ACQUIRED BRITISH CITIZENSHIP AND CONVERTED TO ANGLICANISM • 1948  HE RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE • 1965  HE DIED IN LONDON THE LONG SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK HIS FIRST WORK THERE ARE CULTURAL REFERENCES TO DANTE («Divina Commedia») AND SHAKESPEARE (« Hamlet») IS A DRAMATIC INTERIOR MONOLOGUE DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCE OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK PRUFROCK IS THE OPPOSITE OF THE ROMANIC HERO PRUFROCK IS A NEUROTIC, MIDDLE- AGED, INSECURE AND EMOTIONAL DISTANT THE POEM IS SET IN THE CITY EPIGRAPH THE EPIGRAPH IS A QUOTATION FROM CANTO 27 OF THE INFERNO BY DANTE ALUGHIERI. DANTE AND VIRGILIO SPEAK WITH A DAMN, GUIDO DA MONTEFELTRO, AND ASK HIM TO TELL HIS STORY. J. ALFRED PRUFROCK PRUFROCK BELIEVES THAT HIS STORY REMAINS HIDDEN, SO IT OPENS WITHOUT FEAR PRUFROCK HAS A SECRET, A SECRET OF LOVE. HE’S IN LOVE, BUT HE CAN’T TURN OUT. HE CAN THEN ONLY SAY IT TO THOSE WHO CAN NEVER BETRAY HIM: HIS CONSCIENCE «LET US GO THEN, YOU AND I» IT IS HE AND HIS CONSCIENCE THAT GO IN THE EVINING IN THIS DESIRE TO CONFIDE AND TO SPEAK PRUFROCK IS THE HERO OF INACTION AND BURNS HIS LIFE WITHOUT EVER DARING.