The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufock Analysis Love is a powerful emotional drive that many authors write about. Many seek to obtain love‚ but never do. In the poem The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufock by T.S Elliot‚ this is true of Alfred Prufock. The meaning gathered from this poem is that‚ Prufock isn’t skilled at engaging in social intimacy because of his negative perceptions of the world. Three shifts in the poem amplify this meaning are shown in his dark descriptions of his surroundings‚ his
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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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WEI 1 WEI XIN MS EILEEN ENG4U 11 September 2012 Love to experience the happiness between man and woman. Couples always believe that their happiness is the emblem of eternity with love‚ and their happiness can improves with age. The fact‚ however‚ this is an impossible task in practice. In “Love the way you lie”‚ a very popular song‚ the lyric proves the former view. Although the couples still love each other deeply‚ they cannot be happy anymore. With the passage of time‚ the man does no longer
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EXAMPLE (A) Grace Chua’s poem‚ “(love song‚ with two goldfish)” describes a basic love story that yields no happy ending. In this “song”‚ male wants female‚ but the female wants more than what the male can provide. A difference in desires is established. Although the characters of this song are both goldfish‚ I believe this story represents and can act as a metaphor for numerous relationships in which a female feels trapped or closed in and the male that loves her if not capable of satisfying
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In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ T.S. Eliot reveals a song of a split between shyness and passion. He gives his point of view about the frustration of living in a “fantasy world” being. While T.S Eliot took this poem as more to a man feeling insecure I took this poem as a love failure‚ as if a love that never happened and that would not ever happen because of lack of courage/bravery. The insecurities of the man took him to feel humiliated and rejected because of his age. This poem starts
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city played a great role in Eliot´s life because there he met Ezra Pound‚ a figure which had a major influence on Eliot´s further growth as a person and as a poet as well. The saying “less is more” describes this intellectual very correctly. He wrote very little but he always
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TJ Waller Mrs. Pinchback AP English 12 18 November 2013 Explication One: “Mad Girl’s Love Song” “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath dramatizes the clash between perception and reality in the mind of a speaker who has lost a love so vital to her world that she begins to question her own sanity. No formal setting is introduced‚ which supports a theme of mental instability as it can be inferred that the entire poem is taking place within the speaker’s mind as she struggles to determine the
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of his love and lust for women quite openly while Eliot seems more wary of the temptations they pose. This slightly Puritanical outlook that Eliot had brought with him over from America to the more relaxed Europe is one that can be seen quite clearly in A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. This poem was a pointed attack on all the well-dressed‚ upstanding bourgeois who loved their material wealth but had nothing when it came to love or happiness. But not only that‚ in a way it is a love song of unrequited
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. ELIOT Questions for Discussion 1. How does the epigraph from Dante’s Inferno help Eliot comment on the modern world in“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? What does it tell us about the setting of this poem? How is Montefeltro’s miscalculation related to the poem? Prufrock laments that the mermaids will not sing to him. Prufrock’s dilemma represents the inability to live a meaningful existence in the modern world.[24] McCoy and Harlan wrote "For many
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot is a poem I would not recommend anyone still trying to hang on to his or her youth. T. S. Eliot’s poem‚ about a man named J. Alfred Prufrock‚ is a pessimistic poem looking at the seemingly wasted life of an aging man. The poem is told from the viewpoint of a very sad man named J. Alfred Prufrock. The poem takes place in the city of St. Louis‚ which T. S. Eliot does not portray in a very good light. T. S Eliot’s creation of a depressing mood‚ powerful
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