“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ,written by T S Eliot ,is a modernistic poem in the form of a dramatic monologue. The term “modernism” refers to a movement that began in the late 1800’s, merging with WWI, and continued to be influential after WWII. Modernist poets such as Eliot were concerned with breaking rules and traditions and finding a contemporary way of expression through variations of form and style. Such poets attempted to describe the world
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is a poem by T. S. Eliot about a neurotic, socially awkward man. J. Alfred Prufrock is a middle-aged man that projects his life onto the images around him. He seems to be able to compare every aspect of his life to some inanimate object. This makes me wonder if he believes that he himself is also as insignificant and overlooked as the inanimate objects around him. That is the effect that his comparisons give to the reader.
Faber. He founded and, during the seventeen years of its publication (1922-1939), edited the exclusive and influential literary journal Criterion. Throughout T.S. Eliot’s life, he let the Bible and his religion influence his work. In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Eliot uses biblical allusions throughout this poem to help the reader become more aware of the message he is trying to convey. The first biblical allusion is to the death of Lazarus shown in line 94: Eliot writes, “To say: ‘I am Lazarus
“The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot is a dramatic and heart-breaking monologue of a depressed and insecure man who craves attention. He reveals his soul to the reader as he shares his secret desires and wishes. In this poem Eliot examines rejection, loneliness and fear. Prufrock fears that his existence is meaningless, and will endure eternal loneliness; at the same time he is concerned with being humiliated if he acts on his instincts. Rejection can be a hard thing to handle for
Jared Giron Honors English Topham Period: 1 Date: 10/9/13 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Dead” “The yellow fog that rubs it back on the window panes, the yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window panes.”(Second Stanza) Just picture it in your mind, yellow fog that “rubs” it’s back on a window pane. From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Elliot uses these words to weave a picture into the heads of his readers. We imagine a feline like yellow fog that stalks around
of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Abstract: During T.S. Eliot’s（1888-1965）whole life he left us a lot of fortune, and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is considered one of Eliot's finest and most important works. A lot of scholars and critics have done different researches on this poem. The author of this paper tries to analyze one of this poem from the perspective of T.S. Eliot’s poetics. Key words：impersonal theory, objective correlative "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" depicts
I write today with the intent to discuss and analyze The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, penned by the illustrious modernist poet T.S. Eliot. Indeed, gentlemen, I write to discover unto you the significance of Eliot’s piece through the lens of modern medical psychiatry. Eliot, in his fine work, uses diction wrought with anxiety and choppy, disjointed syntax to describe the titular character, Prufrock ,in a manner that largely concurs with the description of Avoidant Personality Disorder, as defined
Due to the Victorian ideals during the 20th century the psyche of humanity was weak making the people be conscious about how to act, what to say and feel about themselves. In the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot, written in 1919, the trend of the consequences of these ideals is seen, showing how one can become isolated and socially awkward. Thomas Eliot grew up in a prosperous family but since he was a child he suffered a hernia not allowing him to do a lot of activities that
influence our response to Prufrock in his social and cultural isolation and how effective is he in doing this? Eliot has effectively influenced and enforced the fact that J. Alfred Prufrock is an isolated individual in society both socially and culturally. He achieves this outcome through the extensive use of an array of language features and devices, which relate directly and indirectly to the structure demonstrated in the poem. The poem is an inquest into the mind of Prufrock, who is seemly brought
The "Love Song" of the title is ironic since the eponymous character is isolated, timid, anti-heroic, middle aged, and unromantic. A natural tendency is to assume that Prufrock is T. S. Eliot, even though Eliot was 27 years old when the poem was first published. The pronouns of the "Let us go then, you and I" are sometimes interpreted as two different parts of Prufrock's personality: one that urges him to take action and participate in events; the other, a feckless dilettante who fears involvement