“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot is a poem I would not recommend anyone still trying to hang on to his or her youth. T. S. Eliot’s poem‚ about a man named J. Alfred Prufrock‚ is a pessimistic poem looking at the seemingly wasted life of an aging man. The poem is told from the viewpoint of a very sad man named J. Alfred Prufrock. The poem takes place in the city of St. Louis‚ which T. S. Eliot does not portray in a very good light. T. S Eliot’s creation of a depressing mood‚ powerful
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Response) When thinking of a typical love story a reader expects compassion and romance‚ but in T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ romance is not the topic of discussion. The backdrop of the poem is a typical London‚ England day with numerous travels through the seamless foggy streets early 1900’s London. The mystery or puzzle through the poem tend to transpire with cleverly diverted unanswered question from the narrator that somehow get overlooked
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: The Pitiful Prufrock T.S. Elliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚" is a melancholy poem of one man’s frustrated search to find the meaning of his existence. The speaker’s strong use of imagery contributes to the poems theme of communion and loneliness. The Poem begins with an invitation from Prufrock to follow him through his self-examination. The imagery of this invitation begins with a startling simile‚ "Let us go then you and I/ When the evening
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Love is a popular topic many people claim to have knowledge and understanding of. However‚ is it actually a matter to figure out? Many have different interpretations of what true love is and how it is gained‚ felt‚ and shown. Such as in‚ T.S. Eliot’s‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” a poem about a middle-aged and over privileged man who suffers from social anxiety causing him to constantly pity himself as well as be surprisingly self conscious when about to approach women. In the famous William
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Tracing ‘The Uncanny in Eliot’s ‘The Love Song Of J.Alfred Prufrock’ Freud’s theory of ‘The Uncanny’ reveals much about his understanding of human beings who take form of either repressed beliefs or desires brought up from the unconscious into the conscious mind. Thus is very much related to the poem written by T.S.Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock’‚ which highlights a vision on society that represents the familiar and the unfamiliar. Freud defines the uncanny as‚ “that species of the
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of his love and lust for women quite openly while Eliot seems more wary of the temptations they pose. This slightly Puritanical outlook that Eliot had brought with him over from America to the more relaxed Europe is one that can be seen quite clearly in A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. This poem was a pointed attack on all the well-dressed‚ upstanding bourgeois who loved their material wealth but had nothing when it came to love or happiness. But not only that‚ in a way it is a love song of unrequited
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Poetry Analysis Essay In T.S Elliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock he describes his experiences in everyday life and the struggles he faces while doing them. Through allusion‚ repetition‚ and synecdoche‚ he supports a message of uncertainty as he gets older and makes decisions in his life. Overall‚ the tone of the poem is dreary through the way things are described such as the streets‚ sky‚ and people. An allusion is a reference to something in a poem that the reader can relate to; which
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Professor: Nichole Lariscy Sep/30/2014 The Pitiful Prufrock of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S Elliot is the lifetime of an old age man remembers‚ which consist of his past failures. Then‚ he puts them into the context of his meaningless life to try to comprehend the significance and compensate for his loneliness. Through Eliot ’s rich imagery and excellent use of poetic language‚ Prufrock ’s explanation of his memories‚ his experiences
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The Final List Literary/non-literary language Images (five) Simile Metaphor Personification Apostrophe Repetition and Parallelism Hyperbole Exaggeration Antithesis Oxymoron Paradox Allusion Connotation Sound Devices: Internal rhyme End rhyme Eye rhyme Assonance Consonance Alliteration Onomatopoeia Setting Tone Mood Attitude Samples of Students’ writing in the Midterms a. And I saw the flash of a white throat‚ And a double row of white
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In the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot‚ the main character‚ J. Alfred Prufrock is seen as an anti-hero. His character and identity comes through strongly in the poem as a shy and introverted man who is socially inept‚ extremely self conscious‚ lacking in self confidence and wallowing in self-pity‚ yet desiring for people to notice him. The composer shows this through his use of allusions‚ powerful imagery to create vignettes of Prufrock’s life and the form of the poem as
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