... identifiable symbols, both written and visual, as such is the nature of human emotions that most audience groups can relate to these ideas. Individualism in society is often linked with social isolation. In T.S Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" the issue of loneliness within society is very prominent. The character of Prufrock is an aging man undergoing a phase of uncertainty and negative self-perception. Although Prufrock is at a social gathering, he feels isolated and ... lonely and this is depicted through the interruption "in the room the people come and go, Talking of M...

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... say that the even the mermaids won't sing to him because he is unattractive. It is the state of mind that allows Profrock to believe this. There is irony in the title "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock". It is not a love song at all and that is the irony. It is quiet the opposite. It is a poem based on the need for love. The name Prufrock indicates a prudish sort of persona that knows a lot about love. By the end of the poem with ... all his knowledge of love, he doesn't sing his love song to a women because he lacks the confindence ... ...

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... , he has experienced a type of inner death. The "dying voices" represent a loss of individual opinion; in this poem's version of society, functional formalities have replaced individuality. The "half-deserted streets" and "oyster-shells" represent things that were once full of life, but are now empty and void. Society, while holding the illusion of life and vivacity, is really an empty illusion. The question that the narrator of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" has to deal with ... is whether it is better to live within an illusion and denial, sustaining the fantasy of youth, or emb...

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Inferno Fever: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" The very first lines of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot are inspired by Dante's "Inferno". It is these first lines that are called the epigraph. In "Inferno, the lines are translated as: If I thought that my reply would be to one who would ever return to the world, this flame would stay without further movement; but since none has ever returned alive from this depth, if what ... ; it is like he is saying "Don't do what I did". T.S Eliot uses the same thinking when he has Prufrock warn the reader to not do what he did. Th...

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