... a particular woman of his love for her. In his dream, he tells his love how he feels and for some reason, she is incapable of understanding what he is saying. Prufrock also starts to rehearse a speech he will tell his lover in line 70, but he gives up almost as soon as he starts. I believe that by his low sense of ... . I think that he is a very sad character and he has let time get away from him even though he states that he has measured out his life in "coffee spoons-. Prufrock is so afraid with being alone and incapable of fitting in with society that it becomes an obsession within it...

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• Grade Level: High School

... imply some meaning upon the work. It is used more for the cultured and upper class. An example of an allusion is in T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" on pages 1068-1072. Eliot uses an allusion in the epigraph and cites Dante's "Inferno". It is written in Italian so only the most cultured English speakers can understand it ... . It is used to describe Prufrock's views of hell and is a premonition of his lonely demise as he states on line 125. "I do not think they will sing to me " (125), showing that his I not a man ... ...

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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 sixteen. But examiners love to make people 'compare', and ... ...

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