In this article I propose a reading of Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in the light of its intertextual relations with two works in particular: Dante’s Comedy and Homer’s Odyssey. Moreover, I take the structural positions of these references as fundamental to understand the very meaning of the poem’s voice, that is to say, Prufrock as a poetic I. Finally, from a Lacanian perspective on Prufrock’s desires, I posit the interpretation of this intertextual relation with Dante and Homer as the result of a double-faced archetype, shaped by Eliot’s idea of simultaneity which, according to his poetics, affects all literary paradigms.…
Tag: Intertextuality
Anna Achmatova e T. S. Eliot: chiamarsi ed inseguirsi fino alla fusione
This work is a revised excerpt from my Bachelor’s thesis, in which I focused on Anna Akhmatova’s reception in the UK and, as a second step, on the impact of English Literature on Akhmatova’s poetry. In this article I have decided to investigate the parallelisms and similarities between Akhmatova’s Poem without a Hero and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Four Quartets. What I try to show is that the poem by Akhmatova shares important and crucial features with Eliot’s landmark works. In order to strengthen my argumentation, I take into consideration a number of relevant critical studies on these aspects.…