Poetry, as well as poets, is influenced by a plethora of ideas and events. Many poets take historical events and create their masterpieces. One of those poets is Robert Browning. Browning is known across college campuses for many of his writings, but one of his most popular poems is My Last Duc

Though Browning and Keats are exceptional poets, perhaps there is none I hold so dear as T. S. Elliot. Like historical background and personal experience, a poet’s family life can influence his work as well, and no other poem demonstrates that point as well as Elliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The protagonist in this poem was dealing with many problems, but perhaps his most obvious conflict was his lack of relationships with women. In essence, Prufrock was afraid of women. When the reader looks at the situation, he may think men are the total opposite of Prufrock. So the question in mind is, how can he give this man such an identity? If the reader looks more closely into Elliot’s life, he will find that Elliot did not have a relationship with his father due in large part to his father’s age. At Elliot’s birth, his father was already 40 years old. When Elliot came of age to participate in certain activities, his father had become deaf, leaving Elliot to relate only to his mother and four sisters. With the dominant parental figure of the family being the matriarch, Elliot began to view women in a different way. Although he found women to be both loving and nurturing, problems arose when he became to discover the sexual nature of women. Viewing women as sexual beings became unnatural and frightful to him. He took these fears and placed them in J. Alfred Prufrock, clearly demonstrating that a poet’s family life influences his poetry.

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