A2 Synthesis: Eliot’s use of personification T.S. Eliot enters the world of the dramatic monologue in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” In the poem, the speaker is a character who undoubtedly lacks the confidence necessary to engage with women. Eliot deftly utilizes personification to give the reader insight as to whom J. Alfred Prufrock is, what he wishes he could be, and how he feels about the social scene of the day. Eliot’s first use of personification is setting the scene, but is doing
Prufrock is lonely Why would anyone want to be lonely? Loneliness is a feeling of emptiness and keeping to yourself. T.S. Elliot's poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," loneliness and dependency are due to his insecurities, showing that people are scarred to fail and be made fun of. Eliot does this through diction and imagery. The use of diction illustrates how lonely Prufrock really is. An example of this would be "a hundred Indecisions," (line 32) this show's that he can't make up his
Prufrock and Hamlet are similar in their notable impotence but are different in that while Prufrock is submissive and pessimistic to his inability to act, Hamlet is inherently an active person, but his delirium turns him into ostentatious impotency; Meursault, on the other hand, is merely inert in his thoughts. Prufrock’s impotence is largely due to his submissive nature. In the poem, Prufrock summarizes his own nature in a concise phrase, “And in short, I was afraid (Elliot 3.86)”. From the poem
In the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, Prufrock's insecurity and apprehension about everything causes his negativity, revealing that a person's inaction can negatively impact his/her life. Eliot shows this through allusion and imagery. The use of imagery creates the idea of negativity in Prufrock. Prufrock's attitude keeps him from being social because it puts negative thoughts in his own head. One example of this is when he says, "I have measured out my life with coffee
Alfred Prufrock”. This poem was published in June 1915 in the “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse” with the help of his close friend Ezra. The epigraph of the poem is a quotation from Dante Alighieri´s Divine Comedy, from the first of the three canticas, Inferno. The reason for that is Eliot´s obsession and extensive reading of Dante at that time. Eliot´s poetry, including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is the combination of past and modern time. The
Is J. Alfred Prufrock a loser? T.S. Eliot takes the reader on a conflicting journey of love in his poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Popularity is a concept that we, as humans, tend to struggle with. The way one grows up and the way one is treated by others can ultimately affect their self-esteem in future years, causing them to believe what people say about them. However, Prufrock did not draw the right straw. He was not raised too well known and the evidence of this leaks through even
Eliot displays imagery in ‘The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock’ by using devices such as similes, metaphors, zoomorphic imagery and poetic structure. This gives the reader an understanding of the way the narrator is both feeling and thinking about his life. Through these devices he is able to embellish reality, creating obscure imagery that has the reader re-evaluating their mortality. Within the first few lines of Prufrock, Eliot displays enjambment and caesuras to help in creating his imagery
A key element in " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is love. J. Alfred Prufrock lies inside his mind questioning all that there is of love. You can see Prufrock battle with himself over the acceptance of himself, and thus the acceptance of love. During this part of the poem Prufrock is observing his lover. He is so amored by her that he idolizes her very skin. "Arms that are braceleted and white and bare" (Line 64) He is so absorbed into her beauty he can observe the very fine hairs on her