"Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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This paper discusses the poem, "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by Thomas Sterns Eliot, better known as T. S. Eliot. The paper presents the writer's interpretation of the poem and explores the impact it had on the 20th century poetry circles. The paper also provides a brief insight into the author's life as it pertains to this work.

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"Thomas Stearns Eliot was born into a prominent family in St. Louis in 1888 and he passed away in 1965. His family had well established New England roots so he was never lacking. It is said that Eliot abandoned the Midwest because he thoroughly enjoyed the New England area. He attended and graduated from Harvard with both undergraduate and graduate degrees and he also studied abroad extensively. He was a well known and highly renowned writer of 16th and 17th century poetry and was acknowledged for his attention to detail with symbolic images of the renaissance which became his trademark for the newly created philosophy of Modernism."

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