Prufrock’s Unattainable Desires T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” describes the inner feelings of an isolated man whose desire for a loving and communicative relationship with a female is unrelenting. Eliot presents J. Alfred Prufrock as an older man who struggles with knowing how to communicate his feelings toward females in fear of being judged. Prufrock’s fear of alienation and lack of self confidence contribute to his difficulty in fulfilling his need to be understood
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all on the 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
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February 11‚ 2013 Oedipus vs. Prufrock In ENC 1102‚ we have read two stories: Oedipus the King and “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” As a class‚ we distinguished characteristics and personality traits of the main characters of each book. The main characters are Oedipus‚ the tragic king of Thebes‚ and Prufrock‚ an insecure man. While Oedipus and Prufrock do have some common characteristics‚ they have many distinguishable differences. Oedipus differs from Prufrock in plenty ways. Oedipus comes
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In the poem‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚" the narrator‚ Prufrock‚ has similarities to and can be most closely compared to the character Gatsby‚ from "The Great Gatsby." The main reason is that‚ though their fates are different‚ they have similar personalities centering around the phrase‚ "Do I dare?" They also have built up lives around the masks they wear. They are both characters that are in love with a person that they cannot openly admit this to. They both ponder and wonder whether
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there left to do‚ what great adventures left to take‚ or great deeds left to be done. As Prufrock becomes and old man “I grow old…I grow old” (Eliot 119) he is searching for anything left in his life‚ some meaning‚ some purpose‚ something to inspire him. And honestly who has not been lost‚ searching for the meaning of the next day a purpose to get out of bed or go to work. Throughout The love song Prufrock speaks of things he has done and seen but nothing of what he will do. It is as if he no
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stimulating factors- change in perspective‚ change in world and change in one’s self. 5.19-5.32 Through the focus of change in perspective‚ positive and negative impacts arise from the inevitable change present throughout each text. In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ the change in perspective is clearly evident. He repeatedly thinks back and forth of whether he should approach the women in the room‚ or if he should just disregard the thought of socialising and carry on with his lonely life. The repetition
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mental stability. Though written in different periods of T.S. Eliot’s life the poems ’The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’‚ ’Portrait of a Lady’ and ’Preludes’ uses a variety of poetic devices to portray these thematic concerns. Through the portrayal of his numerous protagonists Eliot explores the effects of exclusion and its tendency for the individual to feel self pity. In the poem‚ The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock‚ Eliot’s use of personification in the lines‚ "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon
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In your response‚ include analysis of ‘The Hollow Men’ and ONE other Eliot poem you have studied. T.S. Eliot conveys the deteriorating state of humanity in the beginning of the twentieth century in the poems The Hollow Men and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Events‚ such as World War I‚ from the early twentieth century have influenced Eliot to express the superficiality and materialistic desire for wealth in modern society. The changing modern world with fallen morals and events such as the
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T.S. Eliot’s Poetical Devices T.S. Eliot was one of the great early 20th Century poets. He wrote many poems throughout his career including "The Waste Land"(1922)‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"(1917)‚ and "Ash Wednesday"(1930). Throughout his poems‚ he uses the same poetic devices to express emotion and give an added depth to his poetry and act like a trademark in his works. One of the devices used throughout is his personification of nature. The second device he often uses is allusions
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world enters the industrial age. While both witness the dynamic transition‚ they both criticize the modernity but in different methods. Two authors’ relations regarding techniques and themes would be analyzed by comparing Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) and Lawrence’s two poem - How Beastly the Bourgeois is (1929) and Bavarian Gentians (1923). Eliot and Lawrence both display modernistic aspects. Modern middle class of England‚ so called Bourgeois is strongly criticized in Lawrence’s
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