Pride In Poetry :: essays research papers

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is vainglory that apes humility (Coleridge). reserve effects everyone and every liaison. It effects the way that we live, the way that we convey and the way that we go about things. It hinders people and events. T.S. Eliot seems to impart some att closing curtain with this word in context. In his two poems, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The voyage of the Magi, there seems to be strong senses of pride and regret of an unfulfilled life. They individually make a tour through points in their lives, which seem to have been hard times. Pride puts a bad outlook on life, respectable like it says in the quote by Coleridge. It is a big job that drapes over the heads of human kind and seems to be a big thing in the eyes of the speakers in the poems. It is a hard thing to conk out early(prenominal) and it hurts you very easily. If you live your life in fear, it may end before you can do what you wanted to do with your life. If Eli ots poems are doing anything, they are telling people to get past their insecurities and go for it. Eliot could be using himself as an example as someone whom hung up his insecurities and succeeded. Pride is shown a lot in these poems, and it shows why someone should get past it.     In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a dead man is freeing through his life that has been filled with regret. The poem is an ode to Dantes book, The Divine Comedy, in particular the part entitled Inferno. This is shown in the epilogue of the poem. There is a quote that says, If I thought my answer were to one who ever could restitution to the world, this flame should shake no more, but since none ever did comeback alive from this depth, if what I hear be true without fear of opprobrium I answer thee (Manganiello 18). In Inferno, the speaker overcomes his initial reluctance to stag his identity when he takes Dante for one of the damned like himself, confined to hell for eter nity. The speaker believed that his story would never be told on earth. When he at last announces what it is that happened to him, the words express a hidden pride for having once achieved worldly renown and an active desire to vindicate his reputation (19).