When the author of the Love Song of J. Eliot published the poem in 1915, the British society has turned into the modern society for around a hundred years. On account of the Industrial Revolution in 1800s, the society has dramatically changed in working and living conditions, urbanization, public health and life expectancy, child labor, working class families and the role of women, wealth and income. The cities turned into urban areas and crowded or congested areas. The social values have changed from internal values to materialistic values. Because of these changes, many people seek to escape from their unsatisfied reality, which is usually a normal behavior for people to deal with their stress (Freud). However, if people excessively escape their real lives for pleasure, the result can be worse as a dependence on pleasure they gain can leads to the addiction which will be able to ruin them later (Riley). In this poem, the author presents Prufrock as a middle-aged man who live in a dingy urban city who retreats himself into in the conversation between 'You and I' which is actually himself both. Thus Prufrock is a psychological escapist who is prone to to have a psychiatric disorder from the excessiveness of his unhealthy escapism.
What Prufrock escapes from is his reality is his inadaptability to society and disappointment from love. He has faced a societal pressure from the critics from others to his appearance. He is in the middle age of his life as he is bald "With a bald spot in the middle of my hair" and "his arms and legs" are thin. He is getting old every day. He also concerns of how others see him as he worried that he will be looked down on from people who have notice the bald spot and his thin limbs. By his body slightly deteriorating, the readers can interpret that he has lived for long enough to once live the society where all urban and modernized things do not take place completely, the age that everything is much deeper, either in relationships or social values, and people are not materialistic like the present.
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is an extraordinary masterpiece by T.S. Eliot. Eliot may possibly give us the essence of twenty-first century poetry. Through the "Love Song," Eliot expresses exuberant writing technique via random comments deposited together. Certainly much of what he writes is...
Elliots "The Love Song of Alfred J. ... Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Elliot continually writes in the voice of Prufrock, and Prufrock struggles to answer his life's "overwhelming question." (10) With what is J. ... In The Love Song of J. ... As one reads this poem, he or she can not forget that these words are the words of Alfred J. ...
Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is an examination of the tortured psyche of a man who is looking for love, indecisive, educated, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. ... Elliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" the main character's tortured psyche, while looking for love that shows periods of indecisiveness, being educated, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. Through the entire work he is trying to find something that he cannot possess love. ...
M.H. Abrams once said that there are three things that characterize a dramatic monologue. First, it encompasses the assertions of a "specific individual (other than the poet) at a specific moment in time." Second, the monologue is "specifically directed at a listener or listeners whose presence is...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, written by T.S. ... The poem concerns with a character (Prufrock) that can see and understand the values in life – love, joy, companionship, and courageousness – but is unable to act on his longings. ... Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" portrays a man's inability to take decisive action even as he sees what is necessary. ...
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot differs from the conventional love song. ... Whether "The Love Son of J. Alfred Prufrock" was meant to be an expression of love or not, I feel the true distinction rests in the importance of action and awareness. ...
Comparison and Contrast of "Miniver Cheevy" and "The Love Song of J. ... Eliot's "The Love Song of J. ... In both "Miniver Cheevy" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", allusions are used throughout the poem. ... Although both authors use allusions, Robinson doesn't use literary allusions like Eliot does in "The Love Song of J. ...
Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock- represents J. Prufrock, a loser who has absolutely no confidence in his self. ... Prufrock obviously has absolutely zero confidence in himself. ... This shows the lack of confidence that Prufrock has in his self. ...
Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," is the interior monlogue of a truly tragic character. ... Alfred Prufrock's self esteem affects his love life greatly. ... Alfred Prufrock. ... In Elliot's masterpiece "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock," as time passes so does the human spirit of the narrator. ...
Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" he continually writes of Prufrock's struggle to answer his life's "overwhelming question." (10)With what is J. Alfred Prufrock is so desperately struggling? ... In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Eliot starts his description at the skyline slowly works his down to a finale in the sea. ...
