Alfred Prufrock" is an examination of the tortured psyche of a man who is looking for love, indecisive, educated, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. ... Prufrock knows too much of life to "dare" an approach to the woman. ... Prufrock is powerful for its range of intellectual reference and also for the vividness of character achieved. Prufrock" is a variation on the dramatic monologue. ... Prufrock's obsessiveness is aesthetic, but it is also a sign of compulsiveness and isolation. ...

• Word Count: 492
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The poem's speaker Prufrock, seems to be addressing his possible lover. But Prufrock is confused about how to approach that woman. ... At the end of the poem, a vague ocean image conveys Prufrock's emotional distance from the society. ... Reading Prufrock through Marxist Lenses Prufrock can be described as an exploration of the Marxist idea through different poetic devices such as imagery and intertextuality. ... " is quoted because Prufrock is uncertain if he should do it or not. ...

• Word Count: 1454
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Alfred Prufrock" is an extraordinary masterpiece by T.S. ... Alfred Prufrock," however every aspect woven together reveals the direct message. ... Alfred Prufrock" explained the turmoil around courting in the early twentieth century. ... Alfred Prufrock" is a poem about a young man's fancy to excite his new sweetheart. ... Alfred Prufrock" is a classic literary piece that will not soon be forgotten....

• Word Count: 420
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Alfred Prufrock. ... In essence, Prufrock was afraid of women. When the reader looks at the situation, he may think men are the total opposite of Prufrock. ... Alfred Prufrock, clearly demonstrating that a poet's family life influences his poetry. ...

• Word Count: 1065
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. ... Alfred Prufrock, the use of a perfect rhyme can be exhibited: And would it have been worth it, after all, After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it toward some overwhelming question, (ll. 87-93) (DeRoche, 337) Ciuro 3 In Robert Lowell's poem The Skunk Hour, the...

• Word Count: 1595
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist  movement. ... Alfred Prufrock," " (1915), the seminal "The Waste Land" (1922), and the later "Four Quartets" (1943), which Eliot considered his masterpiece "has made him the primary figure of modernist poetry both for his peers and for subsequent generations." ... Alfred Prufrock,"" commonly known as "Prufrock," written mostly when Eliot was only twenty-two, was pioneering in its use of interior monologue, in its fragmented structure, and in its startling figurative language ("Let us go then, you and I, When ...

• Word Count: 4134
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Comparing poems Different poems appeal in different ways and some are not really comparable. I wouldn't attempt to compare The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot - a poem I enjoyed at the age of seventeen - with Milton's Lycidas, which I had to study (and also enjoyed) when I was sixte...

• Word Count: 1070
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

English poetry of the early 20th century The end of the 19th century witnessed unprecedented outbreak of drastic changes caused by the intensifying contradictions between the antiquated social order and the demands of the time. Those contradictions touched upon practically every sphere of social ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42