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Modernist Approaches in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

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Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". One of his methods used is that of "objective correlative" in which strings of elements are connected throughout the poem in order to transmit the  mixed emotions of the narrator; in this case ones of hope and hopelessness for the ongoing passing of time. Time within the poem is not measured in the traditional realistic  elements of hours, days or weeks but instead by the thinness of his hair, the thinness of his arms and his life measured out by "coffee spoons". While the narrator  slips us through different dimensions of time, he also does so in regards to space when he refers to the realistic daily aspects of his life and then contemplates the  universe and the endless questions which accompany it. Overall, while Eliots poem clearly takes place in a modern lonely city, the time and space components contemplated by the narrator take  the reader beyond reality and leaves readers emotionally unsettled; emotions shared by the narrator. The modernist movement in literature and art existed between  the years 1914 to 1945 and generally reflected the changing and technical components of society while still remembered or reflected upon the traditional customs of the past. In a sense,  modernist writing was meant as a contrast to the traditional approach in that it could recognize how fast the world was changing and how the world was becoming more mechanized,  faster and technical (U.S., 2003). The modernist movement followed the realist movement from 1860-1890 which in itself had contrasted the romantic movement. The romanticist tried to transcend the immediate to  find the ideal whereas the realists, through its acknowledgement of science and nature, tried to focus on the immediate world. The modernists took one step further in which their work