Priscilla Grunauer Period 3 3-27-07 3. The evening in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is compared with “a patient etherized upon a table‚” the “evening is spread out against the sky.” T.S. Eliot has compared his lonely night to a patient who is under an anesthetic‚ completely numb to all that surrounds him. “The evening is spread out against the sky‚” gives a very distinct image lending itself to another image; a patient spread upon an operating table completely subdued. 7. The obvious
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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 Sylvia Plath’s "The Arrival of the Bee Box" and T. S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" both speakers are burdened by great mental anguish caused by their feeling of insignificance and powerlessness in the world. They both fear and accept the prospect of death‚ while acknowledging life as its opposite. These are the two sides of the human experience. Through an internal monologue‚ Prufrock explores his feeling of uselessness and displacement in society‚ while in "The Arrival of the
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T.S. Eliot was a literary and social critic‚ play writer‚ and publisher. The poem that made him well known was 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
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Social anxiety and ruminating in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock I was very interested in investigating and understanding The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock since there are certain coincidences between Prufrock and me. These coincidences are based on behavior‚ ways of thinking and social performance. In some way I can relate with the anxiety that Prufrock experiences‚ since I also suffer from (mild) social anxiety. I believe that by analyzing Prufrock’s anxiety I can better understand
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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
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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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Though the title of Eliot’s poem‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" leads the reader to believe it will be a sweet poem‚ the juxtaposition of the epigraph right after the title deeply contrasts the initial thought. It is from Dante’s Inferno and explores the suffering and uncertainty in Prufrock. Translated‚ the epigraph is Guido de Montefeltro confessing his sins to Dante assuming that he‚ like all others‚ will not be able to escape the depth‚ the depth being Hell‚ and therefore not be able
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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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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a beautifully written‚ but yet somewhat sad poem by poet T. S. Eliot. It tells the inner thoughts of a lonely man who is seeking love of a woman‚ but his own fear of rejection causes him to stray from following through with the action. The poem title itself is very ironic because the character himself is fearful‚ anti-heroic and unromantic. For someone who is in love‚ wants to find love‚ or wants to be in love they have to be courageous and willing to take whatever
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