The Poetry of T.S.Eliot

This free online course explores three great Modernist poems by T.S. Eliot: ‘Prufrock’, ‘Preludes’ and ‘The Waste Land’.

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Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

Explain the literary meaning of 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'
Identify how the crisis of embodiment is portrayed in 'Prufrock'
Recognize the Modernist quality of the poems
Outline the synaesthetic quality of 'Prufrock'
Describe the series of images that reflect metropolitan drudgery in the poem 'Preludes'
State the meaning of ‘exhaustion of significance’ in 'Preludes'
Compare the central themes of 'Prufrock' and 'Preludes'
Discuss the literary symbolism present in 'The Waste Land'
Analyze the depiction of the burial of the dead in 'The Waste Land'
Summarize the meaning of the stanza 'A game of Chess' in 'The Waste Land'
Explain how 'The Waste Land' captures the sublimation of sexual desire

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