Your assignment for Monday has four steps. Please be sure to read through it carefully, so that you complete all the steps and earn full credit.
1. Read “Modernity and Modernism, 1900 -1945”, the introduction to Volume F of The Norton Anthology of World Literature.
2. Read the introductory materials about T.S. Eliot (pp.537-541) as well as Eliot’s poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (pp.541-544).
3. Prepare a blog post in which you do the following:
–Describe the character of Prufrock, being sure to base your description on evidence gleaned from the poem.
–Much of the poem can be difficult to comprehend. Choose a line, pair of lines, or section of the poem that you feel you DO have a handle on, and explain it on the blog, being sure to include the lines you are discussing.
–Conclude your blog post with three questions that you have about the poem. They could be very small, specific questions about particular details within the poem or more general questions about its overall meaning.
4. Return to the blog and read your classmates’ posts. Choose two questions to respond to and post your responses (as comments) on the blog no later than Monday, November 28th at 12:00pm. You may NOT respond to a question someone else has already answered!! Nor can you answer your own questions. (Yes, this assignment favors the early bird….)