... In his mind he hears the comments others make about his inadequacies. Mr. Prufrock is powerful for its range of intellectual reference and also for the vividness of character achieved. Prufrock" is a variation on the dramatic monologue. Eliot modernizes the form by removing the implied listeners and focusing on Prufrock's interiority and isolation "Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels" ... ; (Eliot 693). Mr. Prufrock's level of indecision is expressed in "And time yet for a hundred ... more apparent when the poem is read aloud. One of the most prominent formal characteristic...

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... . I discovered the similarities in the styles of writing between the two poets by studying a couple of the poems they had written. The poems that I examined written by T.S. Eliot were The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. The poems that I scrutinized written by Robert Lowell were Skunk Hour and For the Union Dead. When viewing the poems that illustrated the ... were at its throat . I myself am hell; nobody's here- (ll. 31-36) (DeRoche, 443) The common grammatical punctuation marks used by Lowell and Eliot can also be pointed out in Robert Lowell's poem The Love Song of ...

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... 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 ... 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 itself. He sits around during the day dreaming ... around to diff...

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... work to 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 ... ...

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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 so I suppose ... feelings, but differently? Is it love, bereavement, pleasure, or a social comment? For instance, poets speak about old age differently. They come at it from a different angle, with their personal voice. T.S.Eliot said in one poem: ...

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