On "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" On "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" J. Prufrock's paralysis follows naturally from this subjectivizing of everything. If other consciousnesses exist only as opaque objects for Prufrock, he has an equally unhappy relation to time and space. Time disappears in the same way. From Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers. David Spurr This five-line interlude ending on "the floors of silent seas" forms an encapsulated version of the remainder of the poem, in which the frustrated effort to establish purposive discourse leads once again to withdrawal downward and inward to a silent world of instinctual being. By this point the tense has quietly shifted from present to past, and the speaker offers a series of prolonged interrogatives on the consequences of action not taken. The poem's linguistic and thematic strategy consistently opposes active verbs to the passive voice which causes things to be spread out, etherized, smoothed, and stretched. From Conflicts in Consciousness: T.S.
J. Alfred Prufrock: Study Guide Cummings Guides Home..|..Contact This Site. .Explanation of the Title .......T. S. Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) originally entitled this poem "Prufrock Among the Women." He changed the title to "The Love Song of J. Love Song.......The words "Love Song" seem apt, for one of the definitions of love song is narrative poem. Type of Work: Dramatic Monologue ......." Publication .......Eliot published "Prufrock" in Poetry magazine in 1915 and then in a collection of his poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, in 1917. The Speaker/Narrator .......The poem centers on a balding, insecure middle-aged man. Setting .......The action takes place in the evening in a bleak section of a smoky city. Characters J. hotels and restaurants, to a social gathering where women he would like to meet are conversing. Themes Loneliness and Alienation: Prufrock is a pathetic man whose anxieties and obsessions have isolated him. The Love Song of J. With Stanza Summaries, Annotations, and Explanations of Allusions .Style ......."
On The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock This site is owned and maintained by William Ames, a member of the Modern Language Association In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot reveals the thoughts and feelings of the poem’s subject, Prufrock, in a way that Prufrock could not have articulated himself, since it is the poem’s objective to illustrate Prufrock’s insecurity. The Love Song of J. S’io dredesse che mia reposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. This is roughly translated to mean that if the speaker knew his words would be taken outside of Hades, he would not have told his story. The information may seem irrelevant until it is placed in the context of the entire poem, but by comparing his poem to the story told to Dante, Eliot warns the reader that this is not an ordinary monologue. The poem is set as a monologue, since the speaker refers to a listener in the opening line as "you:" "Let us go then, you and I," (l. 1). If J. Works Cited T.S.
Poetry Analysis the Love Song of j Alfred Prufrock by Ts Eliot by Kerry Michael Wood Arguably the best known English poem of the 20th century, "Prufrock" is an interior monologue. Readers eavesdrop on J. Alfred's stream of consciousness, which flows forward, backward, and sideways as musings trigger other associations not logically but psychologically. The "Love Song" of the title is ironic since the eponymous character is isolated, timid, anti-heroic, middle aged, and unromantic. Images of involvement and action oppose images of paralysis and fear and such is the conflict that defines the thinker whose musings we share. Prufrock's "song" is a similar confession of a soul in torment, though Prufrock's sins are errors of omission and inaction rather than of commission. The time is evening, and the "you" is invited to make a visit involving traverse of a slum area. The surgery will be diagnostic and will attempt to answer the "overwhelming question." Self doubt and hesitation color this milquetoast's interrogation of himself. Prufrock asks:
sunline press - roland leach The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is essentially concerned with the persona who can see the potential in life - the possible loves, joys, companionship and heroism - but is unable to act on his desires. The poem resonates on his inadequacy, the hesitancy in which he poses scenarios and then rationalises inaction. On this level the poem is a very personal poem of a sad and tormented man outlining his ‘love song’ to all to hear, wanting someone to see and understand his plight. On another level it is a critique of modern society; a place where inane social rituals prevail; a place where individuals are repressed, alienated and no longer in contact with a meaningful existence. Although ‘The Love Song of J. If the title suggests a potential happiness and involvement in life it is immediately undercut by the epigraph from Dante’s Inferno. The sadness and tragedy of the poem is mainly due to the fact that Prufrock is conscious of his own inadequacy. ‘Do I dare disturb the Universe?’