What is the mood and setting established by the speaker in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?…
Prufrock is often not sure if he should ask questions or not. One example of this is when…
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’s tone is sadness. This is proven when Eliot describes the setting in lines 4-9 as half deserted streets, muttering retreats, one night cheap hotels and streets like a tedious argument of insidious intent. Words like half deserted, muttering, restless, tedious and insidious portray this tone. However in Afternoons and Coffee Spoons the tone is more fearful. It’s as though the writer is having these health problems, and is seeing his life being measured out as he gets older. In lines 16-17 we see “Maybe if I could do a play by playback I could change the test results that I will get back” the lyrics display that he demonstrates fear of the future and fear of getting older. He hopes to go back and change the results for a better future. Therefore the tone in these poems…
As people look back to past experiences in their life what do they want to remember? Do they want to remember a wonderful life full of expieriences, or a life where they never really lived? The theme of the unlived life in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock manifests through the narrator as he truly embodies the realistic fact that some people out there are introverted, living in fear, and worrying to much about what society does not approve of them. Life is not going to live for one, one must live for life.…
Poetry is very strange you can read it and think you know what it means and when person next to you thinks it something completely opposite so you talk about it and realize nobody is wrong it just how we interpreted it. There are many poems that talk about love and show examples of love, but in the poems “You Fit Into Me” by Atwood and “French Toast” by Silver they show a different meaning to love. They use many different types of of metaphors to describe the relationships between their emotions. They explain how love can never fade away it's always there.…
Love Songs in Age pictures a woman, perhaps Larkin’s mother, who has kept the musical scores of songs she used to play, perhaps on the piano, and rediscovers them after many years, when she is a widow. In the poem, Larkin uses lexical choice to explore how the idea of love is often distorted and in reality, love fails to live up to its promises of ‘freshness’ and ‘brilliance’. In the third stanza, the concept of ‘much-mentioned’ almost clichéd, love is presented in its ‘brilliance’, love lifts us up, ‘its bright incipience sailing above’; it is ‘still promising to solve, to satisfy’; and brings order to chaos ‘set unchangeably in order’. However, in a moment of tearful recognition, ‘to cry’ the character reflects on how love has not fulfilled those bright promises, leaving the last sad note: ‘it had not done so then, and could not now’. This painful recognition of the failure of love’s promise to solve the loneliness of our lives, in both youth and age, is illuminated in Down the M4 by Dannie Abse. The negative ending, ‘It won’t keep’ implying that the mother’s life, symbolised by the ‘tune’ is not permanent, illuminates the perishability of love in Love Songs in Age, and how we must eventually see past the ‘promises’ and instead ‘glare’ into the reality of death, without lasting love.…
It can drive a man to madness and it can also teach him many things. Troubadour tradition is based around the idea of a love that is both good and bad, and that love should be filled with hopeless romantics and obstacles keeping lovers apart. Troubadour poetry is still relevant in on our society, and has influenced the work of poets and musicians from Dante Alighieri to Johnny Cash. Love in these poems is a twisted, confusing concept that the poets and their readers alike struggle with understanding. In this poem, "On true love all my thoughts are bent," love is illustrated as an internal struggle of the poet between despair and joy. Our poet's concept of love is distorted to match the ideals of courtly love in that time, and though there may have been some good in his love, it was mostly bad. In conclusion, I believe that this poem expresses the idea that love is both a good and a bad thing, but I think that it puts more emphasis on the…
The poem is about a person who fell in love. They were surprised by this, because it was a whirlwind romance and unexpected. The author is surprised by the love and also a little afraid by it. The writer uses metaphors and analysis to set out the scene. There is a sexual theme throughout the poem. After sex they embraced and held each other, then when the subject wakes up they feel the joy of it.…
In my essay, I will explore and examine the types of love represented in pre and post 1914 love poetry. I will look at three post and three pre 1914 poems. The pre 1914 poems I will look at are First Love by John Clare, Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning and Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. The three post 1914 poems I will look at are Harry Pushed Her by Peter Jones, Long Distance by Tony Harrison and Valentine by Carol Duffy.…
In this dramatic soliloquy, a middle class male lives in a charmless environment that is physically and emotionally draining. The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock is misleading because this is not a song or a love story, but this builds on his personal feelings, insecurities, and personal thoughts.Throughout this poem Prufrock uses repetition, rhythm , and allusion to further emphasize pessimism, lack of confidence, and an indecisive character who is afraid to live life.…
In his poem Eliot paints the picture of an insecure man looking for his place in society. Prufrock has fallen in with the times, and places a lot of burden on social status and class to determine his individuality. He is ashamed of his personal appearance and looks towards social advancement as a way to assure himself and those around him of his value and establish who he is. Through out the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", T.S. Eliot explores Prufrock's conflict with society, love and self.…
In all honesty, I had very low expectations of English 103. I have always preferred math and science over English and did not enjoy English 102 very much. Despite my low expectations and preconceived notions of what English 103 would entail, I actually enjoyed myself this semester. Specifically, the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot changed my demeanor. I should start with the fact that I am a feminist and anything about equality, gender roles, or stereotypes intrigues me. This poem’s take on what true masculinity entails entranced me almost immediately. The class spent on this poem was the lecture I participated the most in. After the lecture, I was taken aback by my amount of participation because I do not often like…
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an examination of the tortured psyche of a prototypical modern man- overeducated, eloquent, neurotic and emotionally stilted. The speaker seems to be addressing a potential lover. This concept is also supported in the title of the poem as it portrays an expression of love. “Prufrock” the persona, is characterized as being completely insecure about himself, and he…
“Love song of Alfred Prufrock” in which the role of the speakers have very different characters and…
I chose this poem somewhat at random since I felt that the main point of this assignment was to read a poem and interpret it for ourselves with no influence from others. I think the most disputable, if not confusing, aspect of this poem to me was whom it was addressed to. It sounded to me like it was either self-reflection about what love is, or perhaps more likely advice to another person about love.…