Prufrock and Modernism Modernist literature is the representation of the societal crises and disorientation which was resultant of the burgeoning industrialisation and mechanisation of society in the 20th century. This instigated an evolution of thought which challenged the preconceived notions and boundaries enforced by society and gave rise to new perceptions in relation to the world. Modernism is marked by experimentation‚ and in particular the manipulation of form. This is evident in T.S Eliot’s
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Song of J. Alfred Prurock" Analysis In T. S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚" the author is establishing the danger the narrator is having dealing with getting older. Prufrock is the narrator in this poem‚ and believes that age is a burden and is totally troubled by it. He feels the prime of his life is over and he can’t love women the way he used to. His worry with the passing of time characterizes his fear of aging. The poem deals with these fears. In this poem‚ Prufrock feels unsure
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Advice to Prufrock (A discussion of advice to Prufrock) In life‚ you need to make the best of what you got. Try to live life to the fullest and make memories with friends and enjoy yourself. Believe in yourself and do great things‚ so you do not have a boring life. Have fun with what you got while you still are living and still have the ability to. In T.S. Eliot’s‚ The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ the advice I would give Prufrock is to live life‚ make friends‚ and believe in yourself. Life is
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ideas and concepts. T.S Eliot is considered as one of the twentieth century’s major poets; his poem ‘the love song of j. Alfred Prufrock’ has gone down as one of the major works of the Modernist movement. ‘Prufrock’ is a dramatic monologue that follows a man striving for meaning in a suddenly industrial modern road‚ typical themes of modernism. The isolation and displacement Prufrock exemplifies throughout the poem reflects author Eliot’s own struggles in the new modern society. Eliot through his poems
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1. Describe the speaker of this poem: J. Alfred Prufrock‚ the speaker of this poem‚ is a lonely middle-aged man who is still looking for love. He admits to himself that no-one would love him back even if he would to try. And he already feels like that he’s alienated for society and it has made him into a lonely person. Also‚ he tends to avoid doing things out of the ordinary because it would disturb his daily routine. And he really like fantasy because it doesn’t make him uncomfortable and he
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Eliot’s Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the story of a single character‚ a timid‚ middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to himself. The epigraph‚ a dramatic speech taken from Dante’s "Inferno‚" provides a key to Prufrock’s nature. Like Dante’s character Prufrock is in "hell‚" in this case a hell of his own feelings. He is both the "you and I" of line one‚ pacing the city’s grimy streets on his lonely
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(Dante 61-66). This is an epigraph to the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. These lines are from Dante’s Inferno which is about Dante going to Hell and asking a question to a false counselor‚ Guido da Montefeltro. The false counselor decides to answer Dante’s question because the answer will be kept in Hell with Dante. This epigraph makes an allusion to what happens in the poem‚ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock‚ the speaker of this poem‚ wants to ask fundamental questions of
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Tiffany Li Ms. Hall ENG 4U1 December 13th‚ 2010 A Life Without Love‚ is No Life at All As the flawed in protagonists of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and T.S Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ both Hamlet and Prufrock live in a times of disharmony. Feelings of passion are controlled by realistic tendencies and neither allows sensitivity to rule their order. This underlying journey or quest for female contact causes both characters to live meaningless lives eventually leading to harsh
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T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an important‚ multi-layered poem that has numerous interpretations. The 2 essays by Leon Waldoff and John Halverson respectively‚ are illustrations of how the poem can be dissected and interpreted completely differently‚ with both interpretations having their own unique insights into the psyche of Prufrock. Waldoff takes the stance that poem is “a dramatic monologue that presents an inner conflict between the need to be loved and the failure to
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TS Eliot’s Prufrock The ironic character of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚" an early poem by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) in the form of a dramatic monologue‚ is introduced in its title. Eliot is talking‚ through his speaker‚ about the absence of love‚ and the poem‚ so far from being a "song‚" is a meditation on the failure of romance. The opening image of evening (traditionally the time of love making) is disquieting‚ rather than consoling or seductive‚ and the evening "becomes a patient" (Spender
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