As a literary movement,Imagism,a strand of modernism,is a reaction to conventional poets.It was initiated in London at the dawn of the 20th century,but short-lived,and its effects reached British and American poetry.This thesis aims to find out the difference between imagist poetry and conventional poetry.
The relationship between time and consciousness is what T.S.Eliot concerns much in his early modernist poem The love song of J.Alfred Prufrock.This paper is an analysis of the way Eliot employs the stream of consciousness technique to create a typical Western modern man who suffers greatly from meaningless life and spiritual crisis.
