Eliot's THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK and Shakespeare's HAMLET

McCormick, Frank

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“…I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord […] Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old…I grow old… (l.111-120) One might associate 'the Fool' with Polonius (Brooks and Warren 1958;McCormick 2004), who Hamlet sees as one of 'these tedious old fools' (II.ii.209). Further elaboration on this detail can reveal the relevance of the dialogue that occurs moments earlier:…”

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“…One might associate ‘the Fool’ with Polonius (Brooks and Warren 1958; McCormick 2004), who Hamlet sees as one of ‘these tedious old fools’ (II.ii.209). Further elaboration on this detail can reveal the relevance of the dialogue that occurs moments earlier: LORD POLONIUS What do you read, my lord?HAMLET Words, words, words.…”

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Exploring Poetry with Cognitive Neuroscience: T.S. Eliot's ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’

2016

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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Research that involves both neuroscience and art often attempts to explain the aesthetic experience of 'beauty' in visual art, and to define the function of art in neural terms; less has been written concerning the neural correlates of poetry reading. It is suggested that there are existing areas of study in neuroscience that may help elucidate how we enjoy literature beyond pure neuroaesthetics, such as research in creative problem-solving, knowledge-based pleasure, and music. This essay endeavours to bring together insights from both neuroscience and literature to shed light on how and why we take pleasure in interpreting T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'. It is proposed that the pleasures of reading 'Prufrock' are ultimately associated with the ways in which the reader's expectations are confirmed or challenged. While the conclusions of this paper are intentionally constrained to a single poem, they are potentially generalisable.

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Exploring Poetry with Cognitive Neuroscience: T.S. Eliot's ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’

2016

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“…For treatments of the similarities between Prufrock and Hamlet, se Frank J. McCormick (2004); Elizabeth Drew (1949: 34); Cleanth Brooks and Robert Warren (1960: 394); Harry Levin (1959: 7); Robert Seiler (1972: 41-43);and Grover Smith (1991: 44-51).…”

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Contending Heterotopic Artistic Space and Spatial/Stretched Time in T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Al-Joulan

2010

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Arguing against the almost unanimous consensus that the notion of ‘Time’ occupies a position of artistic and thematic centrality in Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (and in Eliot’s other work, mainly the Four Quartets) , this paper attempts to show that the notion of ‘Space’, the seemingly absent, absented and/or camouflaged, constitutes the centre of the poem, overriding the superficial notion of time. Eliot’s distinctive sense of space is examined in the light of Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘Heterotopology’, to show how Prufrock oscillates between various sites in the poem to gain experience, in the process of which geography overtakes knowledge. That is, Prufrock’s dilemma lies in coming to terms with the contending spaces in his psyche, since his journey is a hyperreal wandering through multiple sites of heterotopic space. The contending domains of Prufrock’s psyche (past actions, thoughts, feelings etc.) are artistic, intellectual, philosophic and religious, though mainly artistic and associated with aspects of tradition that Eliot’s individual talent felt anxious about. Thus, the richness of Eliot’s poem lies in its intense recruitment of past poetry, art, poets, authors, philosophers and artists, becoming hence a space/place for contest between those various revisited sites and itself.

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A metaphorical analysis ofThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockby T. S. Eliot

Brown¹

2018

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Eliot's THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK and Shakespeare's HAMLET

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

Exploring Poetry with Cognitive Neuroscience: T.S. Eliot's ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’

Exploring Poetry with Cognitive Neuroscience: T.S. Eliot's ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’

Contending Heterotopic Artistic Space and Spatial/Stretched Time in T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

A metaphorical analysis ofThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockby T. S. Eliot

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