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Bishop Orders His Tomb at paragon Praxeds Church and The hump Song of Alfred J. Prufrock The span of time from the Victorian age of Lit date of referenceture to the recentism of the 20th ascorbic acid wrought many adjustments in poetry bearing and literary thinking. While both eras contained elements of self-scrutiny, the various forms and reasoning behind such thinking were vastly different. The Victorian age, with its new industrialization of society, brought to poetry and literary works the fictional character, beholding the world from anothers eyes. It was also a time in which Victorian authors and intellectuals found a way to reassert religious ideas (Longman, p. 1790). friendship was questioning the ideals of religion, yet people wanted to believe. In contrast, the 20th century found no such religious fervor in its literature. They writers maxim their times as marked by accelerating social and technological change (Longman, p. 2165). Modern writers were skeptics, questioning every aspect of social unity, politics, and religion. In the modern period the quest for certainty associated with the Victorian exploration of values has vanished (Longman, p. 2167). except many elements of literature remained throughout the changes in historical literature. Dramatic monologue were still used, as evidenced in Brownings The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxeds Church and Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Both contained this style of dramatic monologue, seeing a worldview through the eyes of a fictitious character. Brownings poem lies in the voice of a Bishop, giving instructions for the burial and tomb verbalism as he lays dieing. Eliots poem, sees the world through Alfred J. Pr... ...yric in expression (Longman, p. 1958) opus Eliots poem is chaotic, irregular and fragmentary (Longman. p. 2416). Both poems deal with loneliness, isolation and national alienation, yet Brownings Bishop seems to be isolated fro m without, from the world, and Eliots Prufrock is isolated from within, creating his own alienation from the world. These concepts, maculation not new, were carried over time, expressed in both the Victorian era and in the new Modernism, yet this theme, from these two poems, takes on a solely different viewpoint relative to the differing ideologies of the eras in which they represent. Longman citations refer to page song of Eng 103 course text, Spring 2001 Damrosch, David, et al., ed. The Longman Anthology of British Literature Vol. B. Compact ed. New York Longman - Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.