Author Archives: Ellen Butler

A Decade of Change

The 1910s, the decade of T.S. Eliot’s publication of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, saw vast changes in the Western world’s collective ethos, which both stemmed from and lead to new political, cultural, scientific, and social attitudes. Politically, the … Continue reading

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Daydream

In his poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree, William Butler Yeats develops a curiously mournful ode that captures an idyllic space of respite and peace yet imbues this space with a sense of tragic elusiveness whose primary value is vested in its myth … Continue reading

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