The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

poem addresses the reader straightforwardly, saying, "Let us go then, you and I,"1 Prufrock is really just talking to himself without anyone actually listening to him. His is a tale of infamy and insecurity that he would, in no way, dare share with another human being.…

In The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot the audience is presented with the perspective of Prufrock on his romantic life and experiences with a negative tone in regard to his failure . Prufrock speaks of going out on the streets at night alone with “the one” . He does not know who will be that “one:” and he fears that he will have wasted his life away. He fears that he will never find that women and ask them the “overwhelming question”. This work was published in 1915 by…

After publishing his most popular poem “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, he decided to settle down. Prufrock started to go out to bars and meet women. He had failed miserably, getting rejected numerous times. Before deciding that he was going to die alone, he asked one of his friends about some dating tips. They all told him the same exact thing which was to join a dating website. Most of his friends met their wives on the same dating site. Prufrock was becoming desperate and decided to…

The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock by T.S. Elliot has many traditional modernist elements. One of the most noticeable elements in this poem is the element of multiple allusions drawing from many different sources. In order to understand many of the allusions, the reader would have to be well read or at least knowledgeable of world events, history, biblical references and folklore. The first allusion in this passage is a scientific reference to early anesthesia, which was preformed by using…

Charles Foster Kane of “Citizen Kane, Gatsby of The Great Gatsby, Dexter Green in “Winter Dream” First, Charles Foster Kane in the story Citizen Kane. Throughout the story, we can see that Kane is a businessman in the newspaper business and he loves his job. He tries to be the best of the business in his constant race for the top. Again, he represents the American mentality through his drive to be successful. Kane is a complex character, he is a successful man and he…

T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” has earned its coveted place in the literary canon due to its manifold layers of complexity. The characteristic richness of the poem is ostensible from its first lines; indeed, the opening stanza of “Prufrock” is among the most familiar of all poetry, and the author is hailed for his vivid depiction of setting and liberal use of imagery. Eliot incorporates nuanced poetic elements-- the most marked of these being irony,…

Testament. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, the narrator notices his balding and how women judge him, causing Prufrock to feel insecure about his looks. The judgment of others places Prufrock in a tough position because he does not know what his current lover thinks of him. A recurring question in his head asks whether or not his current lover thinks the same way as his past ladies who scrutinize him for his appearance and experience with the majority of females. Prufrock fears that his…

of viewing the world shattered the illusion that acting virtuously brought about good. In T. S. Eliot’s poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, the main character, Prufrock, internalizes his insecurity, loneliness, and pessimism through his monologue. Although more than a century has passed since the birth of Modernism, the characteristics displayed by the 20th century Prufrock can still be widely observed among the 21st century men of today in…

Most view the beginning of Modernism as the start of World War I. A major characteristic of the Modern Era is revolution and chaos. Key players of the Modern Era are W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Earnest Hemingway. Love in the Modern Era was expressed through history and mythology much like Tennyson, or through the chaos of real life. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and was born in Dublin in 1865. He was very interested in The Occult and social…

Eliot sees in modern man. He seems to believe that when modern man conforms to society, he will eventually lack spontaneity. As shown in line 51: “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;” wherein Prufrock explains that he has not been living his life impulsively and because of this, it leads him to think in lines 84-86: “I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, / And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short…