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Modernism and Eliot's Fractured Speaker — Homework
Reread the assigned "Prufrock" excerpts before answering.
- 1.Define interior monologue.
- 2.Why is the opening simile (evening compared to "a patient etherized upon a table") a clear break from earlier poetic convention?
- 3.Explain how the fog functions as an extended metaphor in this poem.
- 4.Why does the mermaids allusion at the poem's close function as self-doubt rather than triumph?
- 5.In five or more sentences, explain why a war-disillusioned era might produce poetry that fragments and hesitates rather than resolves neatly.
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