Personification In The Lovesong Of J Alfred Prufrock

As life goes on he mopes about how as they mingle with one another he can't help but feel hopeless. He wants so badly to talk to “her” but constantly let's himself down because he is always too afraid to speak. Prufrock that he may be better off living the lonely, vast, quiet ocean than in a society of other people. He says, “Till human voices wake us, and we drown” the ocean symbolizes how Prufrock feels when trying to interact with people, he feels empty, dark, and overwhelmed. This is relatable because everyone feels disappointed in themselves when they don't live up to the expectations of themselves and

T.S. Eliot uses literary devices like allusion and imagery to not only express the meaning, but to build the plot vividly. It is mentioned several places throughout this poem that Prufrock will have time to do things. “Time for you and time for me and time yet for a hundred visions and revisions,”

It symbolizes him reliving what used to be and how he used to be. (line 22) “The term and concept of symbolism (and symbol) is so vast that it cannot even be sketched within the limits of this paper” (Wellek, 1970) Symbols seem to be everywhere, they just have to be looked for. A symbol can be something simple to something extremely complicated.

Furthermore, the superficial simplicity of Hughes’ poems is not meant to deceive, but to encourage readers to engage in poetry from different perspectives because there is more to the poem than meets the eye. Additional questions remain, however. Does Hughes’ experimentation with form threaten to mischaracterize or further objectify the subjects of his poetry? Does Hughes ascribe too much value to these ordinary objects and places? Are there limitations to Hughes’ experimentation?

In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”, the readers are shown the speaker’s grief stricken mind slip into insanity due to the loss of his love, Lenore. This mysterious poem illuminates many literary devices, such as metaphors, allusion, and symbolism. Metaphors are used to develop and emphasize the somber tone to the poem while also reflecting how his grief stricken mind influences his perception of the raven. Allusions to Greek mythology and the Bible also emphasize dark aspects of the poem and give subtle details to the speaker’s past. With symbolism, the importance of the raven is brought to a new understanding of the speaker’s emotions and overall giving the poem a new meaning.

Prufrock is a middle-aged and lonely man that has doubts over whether he should ask her or not, due to the fact that society will criticize him. Due to the fact that Prufrock knows that society is cruel and unforgiving, he chooses not to interact with the women in the end. Throughout the poem, he continually ponders

T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” tells the emotional struggles of a man who believes that he is incapable of love and affection due to his appearance. A man who has internal struggles that prevent him from living and loving to his full potential. The man fears his natural instinct to love and be loved by others. The narrator needs to stop comparing himself to other people and be who he really is rather than who society tells him to be. Eliot makes allusions to different pieces of art to support the narrator’s claim that he is not good enough and does not deserve love.

The various allusions throughout the poem inform the reader what Prufrock thinks of himself. For instance, Prufrock complains about his loss of hair and growing age continually. He uses allusions from other works in which that character is in a similar quandary. Additionally, these references educate the reader on Eliot’s background and the society he has been exposed to. All in all, Eliot is seeking to depict mankind as superficial and judgemental through his many

Throughout the text, the speaker uses a diverse array of literary techniques to demonstrate the multidimensional nature of their love towards a lover. First, passionate love is conveyed in the spatial metaphor of loving with “the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” Here, love is a substance that fills up and infatuates the speaker, creating a powerful drive that forces her to express it. This spatial love is overwhelming and grand, which establishes the passionate and fervent tone of the poem.

An example of a symbol in the text is the pool that becomes filled with green weeds when Duane stops cleaning it: “I stopped cleaning the pool. It filled up with green gick so that the guests wouldn’t use it anymore.” (ll. 3-4, p. 144). This happens contemporary with Duane’s extramarital affair and thus, it happens contemporary with the incipient fading of Duane and Holly’s relationship. Therefore, the pool is a symbol of the decay or failure of the relationship between Duane and Holly.

The overall subject of the poem would be Prufrock's indecisiveness. Throughout the poem there are multiple tones and they all relate back to the theme of self-doubt. For most of the poem the tone would be loneliness because Prufrock always relates to isolation and distance. He also compares himself to other lonely things. “There will be time, there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” (5 th stanza 4 th line) shows that there is a shift in the tone which turns from loneliness to hopefulness.

In April Midnight, Arthur Symons tells his story about a couple walking through the dark London streets. He writes about the love that they share with one another, using terms and ideas to help form a theme around romance. In his poem, Symons uses metaphors and diction to create and support an idea of the feeling of love. Symons’ metaphors create the feeling of being in love. He uses visual images in his metaphors, starting by talking about them together, as they are “Side by side through the streets at midnight,” which helps display their connection with one another.

Prufrock invites readers to visit his involuntarily boring life and take a look at how the people around him live. In this

He is constantly questioning himself and his actions, and he is unable to escape his own thoughts. He says, "I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; / Am an attendant lord, one that will do / To swell a progress, start a scene or two" (lines 65-67). This suggests that Prufrock feels that he is not living up to his full potential, and that he is trapped in a role that he did not choose for

In lines 79 and 80 Prufrock says, “Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, - Have strength to force the moment to its crisis,” he seems like he is on a date and doesn’t seem compatible with the woman and wants to end it. Also, in line 84, Prufrock says, “I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,” which in my interpretation Prufrock is saying how he realizes that he already went through the great stages of his life, and now that he has grown older, he is lonely. Prufrock has trust issues with women from problems earlier in the poem, and once he gets the chance he does not have enough confidence in himself to be with someone. In line 84 Prufrock shows his self-consciousness by saying, “I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,” meaning he has already lived through the great moments of his life, and now he is confused on how to