... without Passion. A commentary of T.S. Elliots "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock" In T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Elliot continually writes in the voice of Prufrock, and Prufrock struggles to answer his life's "overwhelming question." (10) With what is J. Alfred Prufrock is so desperately struggling? He tussles with his intrapersonal paralysis to pursue women while making attempts to stave off aging. This indecisiveness creates a very bleak and semi-morbid image throughout the poem. Eliot's beginning and ending to ... in his own personal hell. Another simila...

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... one gave him answers, he wouldnt let that stop him find the answers himself, even if it meant losing all dignity he had to find them. However, the poem did not live up to those expectations. With the title being The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the reader expects some sense of romanticism in the poem; Prufrock did everything to avoid such thing. He stands thinking for ... sometime because he cannot decide if he should talk to a girl or not. Towards the end Prufrock decides against it, therefore not finding the answers that the headnote from Dante set. He is ... states that Prufrocks ...

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... in his own personal hell. Another similarity between the two works is the descending theme. In the Inferno, Dante travels further and further down through the rings of hell on his way up to the heavens. In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Eliot starts his description at the skyline slowly works his down to a finale in the sea. The first ten lines of the poem are the beginning of his austere descent to discover his inability to "eat ... a peach" (Eliot 124) with a peach being a traditional metaphor for a woman's genitalia. Eliot uses the metaphor of "a patient etherized" (3) to Prufr...

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