with making decisions. In the poem " The Love Song of J.Alfred"byT.S. Eliot‚ Prufrock" is a very indecisive man‚ which leads to depression and loneliness‚ showing that not making decisions leads to emptiness. Eliot shows this through tone and imagery. The use of tone express the indecisiveness of Prufrock. As the poem shows‚ Prufrock is often not sure if he should ask questions or not. One example of this is when Prufrock says‚ "Do a I dare?" (38). Prufrock is questioning should or should he not
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In The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock‚ T.S. Elliot employs both pessimistic and mundane descriptions to portray the feeling of alienation and dysfunction facing many city dwellers at the beginning of the twentieth century. This style of writing was in direct opposition to the optimism and happy outlook popular to the previous Victorian Era. Modernism and the development of a city culture brought with it feelings of losing ones self‚ and many writers began to question the previous ideas of a society
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T.S. Eliot presents modernist concerns of the early twentieth century by portraying the constraints of society and as a result reveals his critical view on human conditions. In both poems‚ ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ and ‘Preludes’‚ Eliot explores humanity’s uncertainty of self and the degeneration of society into one that lacks meaningful communication‚ and to a significant extent has been reinforced by Winterson and the other perspectives. In order to portray the thoroughly modern world
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When we first read “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” I expected a poem somewhat remotely related to what the title is called – a love song. Instead‚ the word ‘love’ is never used or is referred to as a typical romanticism you would normally find in a love poem. This poem is about a man‚ Alfred Frufrock‚ reflecting on what he was doing in his life and questioning what he should have done. The depressing thing is that he is an old man and still has not gone out with a women more then once. I felt
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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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In the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot‚ I found it easy to relate to the author’s feelings of inadequacy. The narrator was constantly bringing up other famous artists and comparing himself to them‚ only to inevitably fall short of his own expectations. Eliot exemplified it best through the repeated line “In the room the women come and go/ Talking of Michelangelo”. The narrator brings up the famous and very talented artist Michelangelo‚ who is still talked about by the women
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The Value of Education In the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot and the essay by Mukharji‚ “A visit to Europe”‚ the theme of value of education is expressed in different aspects‚ while still holding certain similarities in the way that it is viewed by the characters in each piece of work. Although Eliot’s poem can be summarized as an educated man surveying his time and whether he should make an advance towards a woman‚ there are some random mentions of the importance of
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The poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ by T.S. Elliot is one that is full of literary devices that give the already deep piece of literature an entirely new depth when you look for them. The tone‚ plot‚ and overall theme of the story portrays a solemn and regretful lament of a man who has missed out on an integral part of his life‚ true love. J. Alfred Prufrock has coasted throughout his early life thinking he had plenty of time to do the things he hasn’t yet‚ found love and truly savored
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Explication of "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" In T.S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚" the author is establishing the trouble the narrator is having dealing with middle age. Prufrock(the narrator) believes that age is a burden and is deeply troubled by it.. His love of some women cannot be because he feels the prime of his life is over. His preoccupation with the passing of time characterizes the fear of aging he has. The poem deals with the aging and fears associated with it of
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called “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. It was started in 1910‚ and was finally published in 1915. When poems are written‚ they typically reflect the emotional state that the author is in at the time. Due to the tone of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ the reader can interpret that T.S. Eliot may have been in a dark stage of his life. As every author has his or her own form of writing‚ Eliot favored pathos. T.S. Eliot heavily used pathos to develop his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred
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