Themes In The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock

Sharon Olds describes the man across her in a way that the reader can imagine his physique and infer on his way of life. Lines in the poem like “his feet are huge” and the “cold look of the muger”. “I am white, and without meaning or trying to i must profit from his darkness”. These lines give the reader a

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

Peyton Williamson Professor Tanya Boler English 223301 March 23, 2015 Analysis of the Modern Connections Present in “The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Elliot was one of the most well-read literary composers and seemed to be his own endless book of literary references. His mind could simply make literary connections in a work without his actual conscious consent. There were times when his own literary works were made up almost entirely of allusions to other works of literature.

In the first stanza, we can already see how this poem can relate to the world today and how we feel about certain things. We as humans don't like change. Sometimes, we want something to happen so bad, that we don't consider how our life might change if this wish, this hope of something, actually happened. We sometimes may want something so bad, but fear what the consequences might be if something goes

Although both “Araby” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” are narratives revolving around the characters’ unrequited love, there are more differences than similarities in the boy and Prufrock’s love style. Apart from the obvious difference in the characters’ age, the enthusiasm level and the activeness in action are also noticeably different. James Joyce’s short story, “Araby”, is about a boy’s puppy love on his friend’s sister. The boy expresses his love in various ways. In his excessive flow of emotions, he uses a simile and poetically states, “my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires” (2169).

He could imagine his deception of this town “nestled in a paper landscape,” (Collins 534). This image of the speaker shows the first sign of his delusional ideas of the people in his town. Collins create a connection between the speaker’s teacher teaching life and retired life in lines five and six of the poem. These connections are “ chalk dust flurrying down in winter, nights dark as a blackboard,” which compares images that the readers can picture.

T.S. Eliot uses literary devices such as repetition, allusions, and imagery to characterize Prufrock as being lonely and socially anxious, while also being a procrastinator and having low self-esteem, which overall conveys his indecisiveness and inability to act on what he thinks is important. The first part of the poem from lines 1 to 23 illustrates Prufrock’s loneliness and isolation from the rest of society. T.S. Eliot begins the poem with an allusion to Dante’s Inferno. His epigraph is a quote spoken by Guido da Montefeltro, who tells Dante that he is only speaking to him because he thinks Dante is dead, and therefore will not have a chance to repeat his story to anyone else.

Have you ever read a love story before? Well, according to writer Harper Lee, her book To Kill a Mockingbird is a love story. When people first read the book, they would never in a million years have thought that it would be a love story. However, after you finish To Kill a Mockingbird and read it over a couple of times, you will soon realize that she was right to call her story a love story. Although it is not your typical love of kisses, it has a different type of love, which the Greeks call philia love, the love in deep friendships; storge love, the love of a parent and their child, and vice versa; and finally, agape love," the highest level of love, in which you love someone no matter what.

It was representing character and action with some degree of

In his essay “Here,” Philip Larkin uses many literary devices to convey the speaker’s attitude toward the places he describes. Larkin utilizes imagery and strong diction to depict these feelings of both a large city and the isolated beach surrounding it. In the beginning of the passage, the speaker describes a large town that he passes through while on a train. The people in the town intrigue him, but he is not impressed by the inner-city life.

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.

Alfred Prufrock” is fragmented structure itself where he uses scattered, broken pieces that eliminate the traditional linear flow of a poem. This is mostly done through his exquisite imagery. Eliot writes, “I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas” (“Prufrock” 73-74). With this fragmented image, again, we learn more about Prufrock than we do about Eliot; it explains how Prufrock would be better off being a shelled creature, such as a crab, so he is protected by his outer-covering and doesn’t truly have to interact with anyone in the real world. Eliot also uses imagery to indicate the indecisive personality of the speaker.

At the end of each stanza he asks, “how should I presume?” Since that is the ending of each stanza, it shows that he doesn’t really know what to make of all of these people he has met and is questioning why he doesn’t understand them. Another theme of the poem is alienation. Within the entirety of the poem, it is thought that Prufrock is with someone, the reader, as it refers to in the first line, “Let us go then, you and I,” (Line 1). But, in actuality, it is unknown for certain if he is actually accompanied by someone or is just talking to himself, hoping someone will hear him.

People have been trying to give advice to Prufrock, and in turn, reflect that advice upon themselves. Three pieces of advice that are the most important to give to Prufrock is don’t care about your appearance, don’t care about what women think of you, and your life does matter. All throughout T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, he is concerned with his looks and how people will judge him. The first issue that comes up, is that Prufrock doesn’t want to look old. He says he is balding and his arms are growing thin.

This self-denial gives him further resolve at the end of the poem to still refuse to propose. Eliot’s allusion to Shakespeare’s Hamlet is clever in this way because in the play Hamlet is also indecisive; so much so that he needs a reminder from his father’s ghost to kill his uncle, Claudius, who killed his father, took the throne, and married his mother (Shmoop). In this same portion of the poem as the Hamlet allusion, Prufrock admits that he thinks he’s too old to marry, that he is so old fashioned he still “wear[s] the bottoms of [his] trousers rolled” (Greenblatt 1304, line 121). This shows the reader that Prufrock still is adamant that he is not going to propose to the