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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism and T.S. Eliot
Surrealism is a dangerous word to use about the poet, playwright
and critic T.S. Eliot, and certainly with his first major work, "The Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ". Eliot wrote the poem, after all, years before
Andre Breton and his compatriots began defining and practicing "surrealism"
proper. Andre Breton published his first "Manifesto of Surrealism" in 1924,
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.... the workings of
the subconscious mind by images without order, as in a dream " is
exemplified in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
"Prufrock presents a symbolic landscape where the meaning emerges
from the mutual interaction of the images, and that meaning is enlarged by
echoes, often heroic," of other writers.
The juxtapositions mentioned earlier are evident even at the
poem's opening, which begins on a rather sombre note, ....
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