The love song of J. Alfred prufrock is a modernist poem T.S Eliot lived in St. Louis during the first eighteen years of his life and attended Harvard University in 1910, he left the U.S for Europe he also earned both undergraduate and masters degree. After a year in Paris he returned to Harvard. To pursue a doctorate in Philosophy, but returned to Europe and married Vivienne Haighwood and began working in London as a teacher then at Lloyd’s bank. Elliot was most notable for his poem, The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The article from the Journal, The Explicator, “Eliot’s character also sees himself in the tradition of courtly love; as poet lover he tries to sing his “Love song” he even begins with a quote from another such lover Dante,
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He’s tired of going to the same places and always seeing the same people there. He wants to approach her but is very nervous that she won’t like him or she’ll think of him as not good enough. Which is why he is self-conscious and feels judged by the women in the room. I don’t agree that men share the same character traits, introverted, self-conscious and hesitant, as men today.
The book, The Cambridge Companion to T.S Eliot by David Moody mentions “For some years we had no full formal biography of T.S Eliot and this seemed, to many people at the very least odd for- as those many viewed it0 Eliot was after all, the dominant figure in English letters. Eliot declared that he wanted no Life written. This seems as though he could have the character traits of introverted or private individual.
The fourth stanza is when the reader will first notice Prufrocks self-consciousness he constantly says “Do I dare?” he is afraid of what the women will think of him or if how bad they might perceive him by his attire, when he refers to “They” he means the women in the room.
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair-(They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”) suggesting his age the women in the room must be much younger than …show more content…
Men today live a much faster paced life.The town he lived in was much smaller than those we consider towns today. Men today don’t share similar characteristics especially since he never felt at home in the country that he was born and raised in, where all his family lived.
Judging from men that I’ve met, peers, and family relatives if not some all men tend to be the complete opposite of Prufrock also movies and books often depict men as overly confident, aggressive and outgoing, all which are the complete opposite of Prufrock. Because he believes he isn’t good enough for his potential companion across the room is why he feels discourage and constantly ask himself “Do I dare?” as if he feels that if he does get rejected that going up and talking to her wasn’t worth the effort and probably would regret his decision.
In line 13-14 women continue to leave and enter the room talking about the painter, Michelangelo, he then
He’s tired of going to the same places and always seeing the same people there. He wants to approach her but is very nervous that she won’t like him or she’ll think of him as not good enough. Which is why he is self-conscious and feels judged by the women in the room. I don’t agree that men share the same character traits, introverted, self-conscious and hesitant, as men today.
The book, The Cambridge Companion to T.S Eliot by David Moody mentions “For some years we had no full formal biography of T.S Eliot and this seemed, to many people at the very least odd for- as those many viewed it0 Eliot was after all, the dominant figure in English letters. Eliot declared that he wanted no Life written. This seems as though he could have the character traits of introverted or private individual.
The fourth stanza is when the reader will first notice Prufrocks self-consciousness he constantly says “Do I dare?” he is afraid of what the women will think of him or if how bad they might perceive him by his attire, when he refers to “They” he means the women in the room.
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair-(They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”) suggesting his age the women in the room must be much younger than …show more content…
Men today live a much faster paced life.The town he lived in was much smaller than those we consider towns today. Men today don’t share similar characteristics especially since he never felt at home in the country that he was born and raised in, where all his family lived.
Judging from men that I’ve met, peers, and family relatives if not some all men tend to be the complete opposite of Prufrock also movies and books often depict men as overly confident, aggressive and outgoing, all which are the complete opposite of Prufrock. Because he believes he isn’t good enough for his potential companion across the room is why he feels discourage and constantly ask himself “Do I dare?” as if he feels that if he does get rejected that going up and talking to her wasn’t worth the effort and probably would regret his decision.
In line 13-14 women continue to leave and enter the room talking about the painter, Michelangelo, he then