The Love Song J Alfred Prufrock Literary Devices

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Friday four AP lit students were left to their own devices equipped with giant printouts of "The Love Song" by J. Alfred Prufrock, and scissors. Minor paper cuts were obtained following some great discoveries.

We dove into our copies of Prufrock and began cutting out pieces that we liked. We took those pieces and made them fit into coherent thoughts. Our goal was to make something sounding like Prufrock. I believe that our end result met the initial goal quite well.

As we begun brainstorming we settled on four things that characterized Prufrock's style. We tried to inclde these into our created piece. We decided not to add rhyme because we didn't feel we could embed it with the same strength as Prufrock; we didn't want poorly made rhymes

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