Rhiannon+H

T.S Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is modern because of they way he writes his words and how they are interpreted. In his stanzas he writes about his love then it being torn down. "With a bald spot in the middle of my hair- They will say, How his hair is growing thin!" In modern times, people are always judging. He is taking his baldness and thinking, what will the say? Judging has always been around but in this time of age, that is all that people do. If you do not look "right" you will be judged. His love for someone is being shown in a weird awkward way. He wants to take this girl that he loves to a fast food place. Then to a cheap motel to do "work". "Till human voice wake us, we drown."

Existentialism is a group of attitudes that emphasizes existence rather than essence. It started during and or after WWII. "Existence over Essence" Existentialism believes that existence precedes essence. Meaning, essence is that human beings could be places with in a larger whole thats provided by the standard. Existence is yourself, making a statement by yourself. Existence over essence is saying, individual vs. a group. When the farmer is taken from his place and put into a group of industrial workers, he is no longer his own farmer self, he is now a worker. Things and people do exist, but do they have meaning is the problem and question.