The World and Works of Ts Elliot

T.S. Eliot is said to be one of the most influential modernist poets of our time. His poetry, although very complex is the subject of literary classes and discussions around the world. His poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land" are not only alike in his literary style, but also share the same theme of unsuccessful male and female relationships. Eliot experienced a very unsuccessful relationship with the opposite sex when he was married to a drug-addicted mental patient for several years. In each poem Eliot makes a special point to show unsuccessful male-female relationships as an important theme. He does this in both poems to show how utterly isolated people are in the twentieth century. Eliot uses these poems to explain that there are not true relationships based on love in modern society, but only unsuccessful relationships based on immoral values.

TS Eliot is arguably one of the greatest English poets of the 20th century. His writing style focuses on the human psyche and personal experiences of the personas in the poem derived from his own personal experiences having been affected by WWI. In each of his poems, Eliot uses the theme of human suffering to evoke and portray a bleak and melancholy setting, which acts as the motive behind the strange and peculiar actions that the characters demonstrate. The Poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Rhapsody of a Windy Night" put forward the concept of human suffering, as a result of the isolation, decay and sterility of their environments and situations in which they are confronted with.