`To His Coy Mistress` and `The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock`

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A Comparison and Contrast Between Andrew Marvell 's To His Coy Mistress

and T .S . Eliot 's The Love Song Of J . Alfred Prufrock

One of the most popular British poets is Andrew Marvell (1621-1678 In an era that makes a better claim than most upon the familiar term transitional , Andrew Marvell is surely the single most compelling embodiment of the change that came over English society and letters in the course of the seventeenth century ( Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678 . His work

focused on surprising , and , at times , shocking and daring , use of language to explore questions about love , sex , the earth the universe , and the divine ( To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell . His lyric poetry and its metaphysical themes proved to last many centuries which inspired many such as Charles Lamb and T .S Eliot

T .S . Eliot (1888-1965 ) sought inspiration from Andrew Marvell 's To His Coy Mistress for his work The Love Song Of J . Alfred Prufrock which forever associated both works with one another . To His Coy Mistress and The Love Song Of J . Alfred Prufrock , though similar in a few ways , are poems both speaking of love , but in completely different contexts and forms and structures

Although Eliot developed certain differences from Marvell 's work , it cannot be denied that there are certain characteristics in the works that are quite similar . In fact , certain segments of Eliot 's work are seen right of as taken from Andrew...