Hallmarks of modernism include focus on the individual experience, cynicism, alienation, cultural diversity, and symbolism. Where do these ideas appear in T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? How does Eliot use language and structure in the poem to convey them? You can find a copy of the poem here:

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Which quotation best supports the authors’ claim and purpose?

What element of medieval literature does the disappearance of the sword into the lake represent?