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“The ivory men make company between us”:  Rethinking subject and object roles in the poetry of T.S. Eliot

Creator:

Harr, Kayla

Abstract:

While metaphysical turmoil is the essential human problem in T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “Preludes,” traditional criticism of the poems relegates the physical world to a merely rhetorical role. This thesis argues that Eliot’s use of objects in his poetry suggests they...

Resource Type:

Undergraduate Thesis