Literary Analysis Of 'The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock'

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When a love story is told in a first-person perspective, it makes sense for the readers to expect an overly dramatic and emotional narrative. James Joyce’s “Araby” and T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” are both love experiences written in first-person perspectives. However, in “Araby”, the boy occasionally assumes a somewhat detached attitude in his narration and in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Prufrock sings his love song in a dry, passive manner. When the boy in “Araby” explains about the name of the girl he fell in love with, he says “her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood” (2169). Although this statement might sound passionate, identifying his love-evoked reaction as foolishness and not providing the readers with the girl’s name expresses the boy’s current state of

Bitter. Sweet. Tender. Love. The subjective idea of love may refer to a concept, an attitude, an emotion, one could have towards another. Throughout history, one’s perception on love may vary due to the ideology they were being indoctrinated with as well as their family background. Given that different historical periods may affect one’s perception on their idea of love, an analysis on the poems “La Belle Dame sans Merci” by John Keats, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, and “Mother in a Refugee Camp” by Chinua Achebe, will be made in order to examine and explore how poets living in different times present love in their own unique approach.

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Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written by Edmond Rostand that follows Cyrano, a Renaissance man with high esteem, but he has a huge nose that holds him back from doing many things, because he feels that he is ugly. Despite this, he is an accomplished poet, one who is great at being able to say what he feels. Cyrano loves his cousin Roxane, who is an intelligent and beautiful woman. The only problem is that Roxane loves Christian, who is the total opposite of Cyrano. He is handsome, but he is terrible with words. Christian loves Roxane, but in order to make her fall in love with him for sure, he needs the help of Cyrano. Cyrano agrees and helps Christian, because he feels Roxane will never love him, because he is ugly. The theme of Edmond Rostand’s

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Eliot utilizes several of his past occurrences to better enhance the meaning of the story. The allusions help the reader understand more about Prufrock’s beliefs and culture. For example, Prufrock states, “And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid” (85-86). This statement provides that the narrator is afraid of death (sometimes known as the eternal Footman). He fears that death mocks him for not being able to approach the woman and believes that he is going to die in this apprehensiveness. Throughout the poem, Eliot alludes to several different works to give the reader a better of understanding of the extremely anxious Prufrock along with society as a whole.

Modernism was a period in the early twentieth century that often dates back to the publication of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” This movement broke the traditional ways of form, concepts, and style found in poetry and allowed poets to freely express their ideas and beliefs through various ways such as free verse, fragmentation, allusions, imagery etc. T.S. Eliot is known for modernizing himself on his own by using fragments that incorporate multiple voices into his work. Eliot’s use of fragmentation and allusions in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and The Waste Land demonstrates his belief that modern society is disordered and chaotic and his realization that reality is too disjointed to understand.

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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. Elliot simply used these allusions to tell his own story, sometimes giving new meanings to quotes, or adding emphasis to new words or phrases. Often, these references had to be understood themselves for a reader to truly know what was being said in one of Elliot’s works. One such work that contains so many references to past writers and works, is “The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The story of Prufrock is an intriguing one dominated by allusions and many references to earlier works of literature that Elliot himself read, and applied to a story of a modern man.

T.S. Eliot is a worldwide famous poet, an American modernist, and the winner of the 1894 Nobel Prize in Literature. Eliot changed the existing order in English literature. His poetry and literary criticism changed the literary interests of the whole generation. Through his poems, he forces people to know the history of the development of English poetry and to look at the seventeenth-century England with a new vision of Romanticism. At the same time, his works deepen people 's understanding of French symbolism in the nineteenth century and make people more aware of the possibility of drawing lessons from foreign poetry. Eliot uses tradition and personal innovation, combined with the revitalization of the twentieth-century British poetry, which leads to poems full of vitality. Based on the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” this paper explores the poet 's exploration and innovation in the aspects of poetic skills and content. The early works of Eliot are in a low tone, and he often uses association, metaphor, and suggestion to express modern people 's depression. The famous poem “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" uses the inner monolog of the protagonist’s desire to love and fear of the contradictory attitude of love to illustrate modern emptiness and cowardice.

The first emotion displayed in the poem was love. The emotion of love appears when Prufrock talks of taking his friend out. For example on page 832 lines 4-7 reads “Let us go through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in the one-night cheap hotels (Eliot)”. The next emotion that appears in the poem of “The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” is embarrassment. Prufrock seemed to be embarrassed about his image to other people. As lines 37-44 in the poem read “ And indeed there will be time To wonder, Do I dare, and time to turn back and descend the star, with a bald spot in the middle of my hair( They will say: How his hair is growing thin !) My morning coat, my collar moving firmly to the chin, my necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin- are thin (Eliot). These lines further prove that Prufrock was concerned about his appearance in the

From the context of this poem it can be inferred that there is an influence of Yeats and the theory she is besetting is similar to the obscure philosophy of history which Yeats proposed. “She says in her critical book Ever Changing Shape that: “While he eschewed all accepted orthodoxy,” she explains, “Yeats created by means of his verse, a philosophy which, for him, explained the meaning of human existence” (Jennings, ECS 116). The subjects of Jennings’s delicate criticism could also extend to include the “closed symbolic systems” which Eagleton says Yeats, Eliot, Pound , Lawrence, and Joyce were developing to provide “exhaustive models for the control and explanation of historical reality.