Alfred Prufrock,"" is about one mans frustration and misery on his quest to find some type of meaning of his existence. It begins with an invitation from Prufrock to follow him through his examination of himself. His imagery of his invitation begins with, "Let us go then you and I/When the evening is spread out against the sky/Like a patient etherised upon a table (1-3)."" This not only describes the evening sky, but the "etherised- evening which creates a dreamlike quality throughout the poem (3). This dreamlike quality is supported in the poem with the "yellow fog- contributing to the slowed-down-etherised feeling of the poem (15). It is like the poem is suspended from one mans life, "spread out against the sky (2)."" The imagery of the patient represents Prufrock's self-examination. The imagery of the "etherised patient- expresses a person waiting to be treated (3). This treatment will be Prufrock's examination of his life. .
Prufrock then repeats his invitation and asks the reader to follow him along his cold and lonely domain. Prufrock's description of the urban city is quite dull: "Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,/The muttering retreats/Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels/And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells;/Streets that follow like a tedious argument/Of insidious intent (4-9)."" This is a lonely setting that Prufrock lives out his meaningless existence. The city is under the same feeling that spreads the evening like an "etherised patient (3)."".
Prufrock goes on from the city onto his final destination; "the room women come and go/Speaking of Michelangelo (13-14)."" These lines add anticipation to the tension surrounding the poem and are about time. These lines suggest that Prufrock has seen these women "come and go,"" suggesting that Prufrock has been around for some time (13). The line also implies that while others have come and gone from the social circles that Prufrock is apart of, Prufrock has stayed clear.
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. ... In The Love Song of J. ...
T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is an examination of the tortured psyche of a man who is looking for love, indecisive, educated, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. ... Elliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" the main character's tortured psyche, while looking for love that shows periods of indecisiveness, being educated, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. ...
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" by T.S. Elliot is filled with many allusions. ... In his epigraph Elliot introduces a literary allusion from Dante's poem "Inferno."" ... Prufrock wants the companionship and love of a woman but cannot muster up the courage to begin a relationship with one. ...
T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. ... Alfred Prufrock's self esteem affects his love life greatly. ... Alfred Prufrock. ... In Elliot's masterpiece "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock," as time passes so does the human spirit of the narrator. ...
In the third stanza of "The Lovely Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the use of imagery and an extended metaphor, along with other literary devices, paints J. ... T.S. ... "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"" is ironically named a love song when it is not. ...
In T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"" a man struggles in the dating world which he classifies as his own "personal hell." ... Eliot describes alienation, in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"" as the life of a single man in the dating world by comparing it to going through hell. ...
"Criticism of T.S. Elliot" Thomas Stearns Elliot, an American poet and dramatist, was born in St Louis, on September 26, 1888 and died on January 4, 1965. ... 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. ... The poem includes the Lady in White, an image of the spiritual agent of God, who provides love, guidance and ultimately forgiveness. ...
T.S Elliot's poem "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock- portrays a man that is pathetic but not grand enough to be tragic. Prufrock is an insecure man trapped behind bars of daily routine that he created for himself. ... (Elliot, 1363) Prufrock feels alone in the world; he feels as if he is an outcast, although he goes rather unnoticed everywhere he goes. Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening- depicts a character that is a bit more sensitive than Prufrock but equally as alienated. ...
