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

Bishop Orders His Tomb at beau ideal Praxeds Church and The Love form of Alfred J. Prufrock The span of time from the Victorian age of Literature to the Modernism of the 20th century wrought many changes in poetry style and literary thinking. dapple both eras contained elements of self-scrutiny, the various forms and reasoning behind such thinking were vastly different. The Victorian age, with its new industrialization of society, brought to poetry and literature the fictional character, seeing the terra firma from anothers eyes. It was also a time in which Victorian authors and intellectuals found a way to reassert religious ideas (Longman, p. 1790). Society was questioning the ideals of religion, yet people treasured to believe. In contrast, the 20th century found no such religious fervor in its literature. They writers saw their times as marked by accelerating affectionate and technological change (Longman, p. 2165). Modern writers were skeptics, questioning every aspect of social unity, politics, and religion. In the modern period the quest for certainty associated with the Victorian exploration of set has vanished (Longman, p. 2167). Yet many elements of literature remained throughout the changes in historical literature. Dramatic monologue were still 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 poem lies in the articulate 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, illegal and fragmentary (Longman. p. 2416). Both poems deal with loneliness, isolation and internal alienation, yet Brownings Bishop seems to be isolated 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 course 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.