Monday, May 25, 2009

“The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot

“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”


Eliot demonstrates in his poem how modern society has lost the genuine signification of a hero. Heroes of before were people of action fulfilling their potentialities, but now people have lacked in their heroism by becoming observers, while the adventures of life are only being watched.

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