Published in 1915, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an examination of the tortured psyche of the modern man—overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally unstable. Prufrock addresses a potential lover, with whom he would like to “force the moment to its crisis” by amendment in marriage. Although paranoia strikes him when he knows too much of life to “dare” an approach to the woman: In his mind he hears the comments others make about his inadequacies, and avoids the emotional interaction with the situation of love due to the exceeding self-consciousness of Prufrock and the modern man. The narrator’s assumptions of “They will say: How his hair is growing thin!” and “But how his arms and legs are thin!” reveal his side of lacking confidence within himself and the ability to approach women for proposal, draining pride from his own self.
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Published in 1915, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an examination of the tortured psyche of the modern man—overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally unstable. Prufrock addresses a potential lover, with whom he would like to “force the moment to its crisis” by amendment in marriage. Although paranoia strikes him when he knows too much of life to “dare” an approach to the woman: In his mind he hears the comments others make about his inadequacies, and avoids the emotional interaction with the situation of love due to the exceeding self-consciousness of Prufrock and the modern man. The narrator’s assumptions of “They will say: How his hair is growing thin!” and “But how his arms and legs are thin!” reveal his side of lacking confidence within himself and the ability to approach women for proposal, draining pride from his own self.
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Published in 1915, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an examination of the tortured psyche of the modern man—overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and