Alfred Pruflock is a withdrawn, middle-aged man who is perhaps going through a mid-life crisis and is examining the mistakes he has made in his life. He is a lover, but at the same time, he is afraid of declaring his love to someone. He is also very worried about many attributes of himself including his aging appearance and what other people think about his appearance. There is an example of this in line 40-41 when he says, "With a bald spot in the middle of my hair "(They will say: How his hair is growing thin!')-. There is in addition, another example in which he imagines the grim reaper laughing at his bald spot and how horrifying that would be. He also attempts to make himself young again by rolling his trousers and wearing a hair style that young people wore at that time, but he realizes it was of no use because he is growing old and there is no changing it. .
He watches the beautiful young women at the party and he imagines himself attempting to converse and tell 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 worth during his daydreams, his will to find a lover and be happy is impracticable. He also feels that he does not fit in with the society that surrounds him anymore. He is also afraid of the increasingly industrialized and impersonal city surrounding him, and he is unsure of what to do; therefore, he is also afraid to obligate himself to any particular choice of action. 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 itself.
Elliots "The Love Song of Alfred J. ... 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. ... As one reads this poem, he or she can not forget that these words are the words of Alfred J. ...
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is an extraordinary masterpiece by T.S. Eliot. Eliot may possibly give us the essence of twenty-first century poetry. Through the "Love Song," Eliot expresses exuberant writing technique via random comments deposited together. Certainly much of what he writes is...
M.H. Abrams once said that there are three things that characterize a dramatic monologue. First, it encompasses the assertions of a "specific individual (other than the poet) at a specific moment in time." Second, the monologue is "specifically directed at a listener or listeners whose presence is...
Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" he continually writes of Prufrock's struggle to answer his life's "overwhelming question." (10)With what is J. Alfred Prufrock is so desperately struggling? ... 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. ...
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. ...
"At times, indeed, almost ridiculous "Almost, at times, the Fool."" T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock- represents J. Prufrock, a loser who has absolutely no confidence in his self. Prufrock pretends to have money but really doesn't, and people notice this, or so he thinks. He seem...
I feel many mixed emotions when I think of J. Alfred Prufrock. Initially he brings feelings of pity because many people find themselves in this same position. They put the person of their affection so high on a pedestal that they would appear to be unattainable. There is very little realism in t...
