Portrait of a Lady

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"Portrait of a Lady" is a poem by T. S. Eliot that portrays a strained, introspective relationship between a young man and an older woman within a refined but emotionally hollow social milieu.

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instanceOf poem
author T. S. Eliot
canonicalStatus major early poem by T. S. Eliot
collectionPublicationYear 1917
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationYear 1915
firstPublishedIn Others: A Magazine of the New Verse
form lyric poem
genre modernist poetry
hasCopyrightStatus public domain in many jurisdictions
includedInCollection Prufrock and Other Observations
influencedBy French Symbolism
linked to: French symbolism

Metaphysical poets
linked to: Metaphysical poetry
language English
literaryCategory 20th-century poem
literaryMovement Modernism
literaryTechnique allusion
dramatic monologue elements
imagery
interior monologue
juxtaposition
meter irregular verse
narrativePerspective first-person
periodOfComposition early 1910s
primaryCharacters older woman
young man
relatedWorkBySameAuthor Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
setting refined social environment
urban upper-middle-class milieu
subjectMatter hollowness of polite society
strained relationship between a young man and an older woman
theme boredom
emotional emptiness
failure of communication
irony in social relations
moral and emotional paralysis
self-consciousness
social alienation
titleAlludesTo Portrait of a Lady (novel) by Henry James
tone introspective
ironic
melancholic
writer T. S. Eliot

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