... that revealed something about the speaker, by the 1800's, the art of dramatic monologue had adopted three things that would influence T.S. Eliot and his poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." They are a "distinctive manner of speech," the unintended revelation of the speaker, and "the poets" changing response to the very immediate circumstances in which, and of which, he is ... stressed emotions, through an erratic form of abstracted conversation. (Classic) Another one of the fundamental aspects of a dramatic monologue is an unintended revelation of the speaker. In the case of Pr...

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... known. The rhyme scheme of this poem is irregular but not random. While sections of the poem may resemble free verse, in reality, "Prufrock" is a carefully structured amalgamation of poetic forms. The bits and pieces of rhyme become much more apparent when the poem is read aloud ... . One of the most prominent formal characteristics of this work is the use of refrains. Prufrock's continual return to the "women [who] come and go Talking of Michelangelo" (Eliot 695) and his recurrent questionings "how should ... I presume?" and pessimistic appraisals "That is not it, at all." both referenc...

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... queer, but it is all emphatically amusing. One cannot pretend to follow the drift of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," however every aspect woven together reveals the direct message. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a lovely piece of poetry written to describe a young man's attempt to find a common point with his date. ... might not always transpire in a fresh relationship. This could also be an explanation on how not to go about a first date. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" explained the turmoil around courting in the early twentieth century. As in the day it was wr...

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... 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 ... when he becam...

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... 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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... of his time with other great artists in the Montparnasse Quarter in Paris. With the help of Ezra Pound, the publication of his first poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, earned him tremendous recognition throughout the European literary community. His style was contemporary and more modern then the rustic poetry which characterized the early twentieth century (Sheridan, 342). In 1922 ... ...

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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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• Grade Level: High School