T.S.Eliot: The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock Eliot began working on this poem between 1910- 1911 and finally it was published in 1915. ... Alfred Prufrock" has to deal with is whether it is better to live within an illusion and denial, sustaining the fantasy of youth, or embrace truth and knowledge and face the consequences of aging and death. ...
Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. ... Alfred Prufrock, the use of a perfect rhyme can be exhibited: And would it have been worth it, after all, After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it toward some overwhelming question, (ll. 87-93) (DeRoche, 337) Ciuro 3 In Robert Lowell's poem The Skunk Hour, the...
Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. ... Alfred Prufrock," " (1915), the seminal "The Waste Land" (1922), and the later "Four Quartets" (1943), which Eliot considered his masterpiece "has made him the primary figure of modernist poetry both for his peers and for subsequent generations." ... Alfred Prufrock,"" commonly known as "Prufrock," written mostly when Eliot was only twenty-two, was pioneering in its use of interior monologue, in its fragmented structure, and in its startling figurative language ("Let us go then, you and I, When ...
The '[drinking] of coffee' is a menial act, suggesting the inanimate qualities of people in need of stimulus, whilst the indolent conversation which follows indicates the hollow existence of Western aristocratic society; a concept explored further in Eliot's 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock', as '[he has] measured out [his] life in coffee spoons' implying a meticulously planned rationale, investing effort solely in the material tedium of 'drinking coffee'. ...
