considered to be a poet who emerged fully formed. This is to say that he did not have a young period where his poems lacked focus or power. His first major poem was The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. This poem still stands as one of the greats poems of the 20th century. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is concerned with a fragmented worldview that came to embody Eliot’s entire body of work. The poem is written in a stream of consciousness style that was a hallmark of Eliot’s work. The title
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Modern Language Studies "Till Human Voices Wake Us and We Drown": Community in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Author(s): James C. Haba Reviewed work(s): Source: Modern Language Studies‚ Vol. 7‚ No. 1 (Spring‚ 1977)‚ pp. 53-61 Published by: Modern Language Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3194154 . Accessed: 18/03/2013 05:36 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1. I would describe Prufrock’s fantasy as a morbid fantasy he has come up with‚ that creates a long metaphor which correlates to Dante’s Divine Comedy. Through his mesmerizing use of dramatic monologue‚ he compares his version of hell as a lonely and abandoned dream‚ possible consciousness; that leads me to conclude that Prufrock’s problem ranges from a state of depression and loneliness that he integrates into this strange‚ ironic love song. 2. The simile in
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Society is very different in the world today compared to the early 20th century. The one thing that stayed over the years was imaging how to make good impressions and how others think. Charles Cooley discovered the looking glass theory following three particular phases for this process. Based on social interactions‚ or actions of others‚ individuals grow and create an image of their sense of self. The first phase in Cooley’s theory is imaging or evaluating one’s self image from another person’s
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table. We draw inferences from the text in which we build an image of the speaker through their tone and characteristics. These inferences can be drawn from both poems‚ “Mother to Son” and “Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock”. However‚ “Mother to Son” varies from “Love song of Alfred Prufrock” in which the role of the speakers have very different characters and meaning they are trying to convey. Both poems show us inside the characters of the two very different speakers. For starters‚ the speaker in “Mother
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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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but in fact‚ although there are many similarities‚ there can also be many differences too. Upon comparison of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot and Afternoons and Coffee Spoons by Crash Test Dummies we see just this. These two poems share similarities in theme‚ and reference to time but do not have similar tones. The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and Afternoons and Coffee Spoons share the same theme of illness. This is seen in Afternoons and Coffee Spoons when the narrator says‚ “I
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used this idea of objective correlative‚ which was made famous by and also features in both ‘Prufrock’ and ‘Sweeney among the Nightingales’. It is a dominant factor of most of his poems. Eliot defined objective correlative as “a set of objects‚ a situation‚ a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion.” There are numerous modernist features in ’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚’ such as the stream-of-consciousness method showing Prufrock’s disconnected thinking processes
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For instance‚ in the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot‚ the implied auditor is Prufrocks lover. We know of her presence when Prufrock addresses her‚ for example Let us go then‚ you and I. This first line of the poem tells us then that the poem is addressed to a specific person. Another instance is Oh‚ do not ask‚ What is it? This line tells us that the auditor‚ that is the lover does interact with the speaker‚ Prufrock‚ but we know about these interactions only through what
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Discuss whether Prufrock is or is not a "modern man‚" in T.S. Eliot’s poem‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." With T.S. Eliot’s poem‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚" it’s important to identify the concept of "modern" during the early 20th Century. The modernist literary movement addressed the... ...idea of individualism‚ mistrust of institutions (government‚ religion)‚ and the disbelief of any absolute truths. Things which were considered traditional were now viewed as outdated. By
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