Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxeds Church and The Love Song of Al

Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxeds church service and The Love pains of Alfred J. Prufrock The span of time from the Victorian age of Literature to the modern-dayism of the twentieth century wrought many an(prenominal) changes in poetry style and literary cerebration. While both eras contained elements of self-scrutiny, the various forms and reasoning behind such thinking were vastly opposite. The Victorian age, with its new industrialization of society, brought to poetry and literature the false character, seeing the world from a nonhers eyes. It was also a time in which Victorian authors and intellectuals name a way to reassert religious ideas (Longman, p. 1790). Society was question the ideals of religion, until now people wanted to believe. In contrast, the 20th century found no such religious fervor in its literature. They writers saw their clock as marked by accelerating social and technological change (Longman, p. 2165). Modern writers were sk eptics, questioning every aspect of social unity, politics, and religion. In the modern full point the quest for certainty associated with the Victorian exploration of values has vanished (Longman, p. 2167). Yet many elements of literature remained throughout the changes in historical literature. Dramatic monologue were understood used, as evidenced in Brownings The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxeds Church and Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Both contained this style of dramatic monologue, seeing a worldview through the eyes of a fictitious character. Brownings verse form lies in the office of a Bishop, giving instructions for the burial and tomb construction as he lays dieing. Eliots poem, sees the world through Alfred J. Pr... ...yric in expression (Longman, p. 1958) while Eliots poem is chaotic, irregular and fragmentary (Longman. p. 2416). Both poems deal with loneliness, isolation and internal alienation, yet Brownings Bishop seems to be iso lated from without, from the world, and Eliots Prufrock is isolated from within, creating his own alienation from the world. These concepts, while not new, were carried over time, expressed in both the Victorian era and in the new Modernism, yet this theme, from these two poems, takes on a completely different viewpoint relative to the differing ideologies of the eras in which they represent. Longman citations refer to page numbers of Eng 103 consort text, Spring 2001 Damrosch, David, et al., ed. The Longman Anthology of British Literature Vol. B. Compact ed. New York Longman - Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.