T.S. Eliot’s Modern Style as Reflected in Sherko Bekas’s Poem “A Fall Letter”: A Comparative Study

ABSTRACT This study endeavors to show analogous ideas in Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Sherko Bekas’s “A Fall Letter.” Bekas, who was a good reader of English poetry, was greatly influenced by Eliot. He familiarized himself with English literature and follows it truly. For the idea for his poem, “A Fall of Letter” Bekas benefits from Eliot’s “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” and uses it in composing his poem. Eliot’s modern style has been revealed in his works as presenting complicated ideas through a simple language to reassure the modernity in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” as well as the modernity in “A Fall Letter.” A sad and gloomy tone is seen in both poems – Eliot may be speaking to his soul or with a partner, but Bekas expresses the poem through apostrophe. The study culminates with an analytic comparison between the two poems: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “A Fall Letter” in terms of their themes.