Poems are regularly catalysed by individual encounters, expressing poets worries about existence and urging audiences to grasp their unique point of view T.S. Elliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prudfrock and Winfred Owens poem Dulce et Decorum Est, are illustrations of modernist poetry however, which both poets intended to mirror the feeling of frustration and ineptitude they felt as the revulsions of World War 1 mounted. Owen solidly rejects the thought of heroism in war that had been made by the Romanticist poets, through the fierce images of its traumatising effect on soldiers. Elliot likewise, expresses his worries by investigating ones feeling of futility and meaningless in society through the persona of a sceptical J. Alfred Prudfrock, reflecting modern man's disappointment with 19th century values.
Owen repudiates social orders deluded convictions about the common idealistic and courageous perspectives of war depicting its brutal and …show more content…
This is evident within The Love Song of J. Alfred Prudfrock "in the room women come and go and go telling Michelangelo". The redundancy of this verse through the poem and the ridiculing tone highlights the superficiality of the conversations of people; expressing the façade that society has made for itself to conceal its anguish. By contrasting superficial issues with more complex issues, for example, Prudfrock futility in noting the huge overpowering inquiry of presence "What is it… do I dare disturb the universe?" make their superficiality more comical and show how absurd the world has turned into that life that has lost significance. His manner of speaking expresses his disarray and highlights his inability to answer these inquiries in the superficial world around him. Elliot's in this way critiques social triviality and superficial concerns in amidst of war as