T.S.Eliot:The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock

Eliot began working on this poem between 1910- 1911 and finally it was published in 1915. The poem appeared in Poetry with the help of Ezra Pound.

The poem raises several philosophical and social questions, concerning time, the evaluation and the meaning of our lives. The narrator has a strong desire to change the world, and he thinks he can do so. Though, time and experience made him realise that the ambition of youth is an illusion. The ignorance is what makes youth live and time brings the loss of this ignorance but a gain of wisdom. Society is portrayed as an unreal, dreamlike world where one can preser

Some topics in this essay:
Ezra Pound, Alfred Prufrock, Prufrock Eliot, love song, Love Song, knowledge consequences,