Love Song of J. Alfred Prufroc
T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock depicts the thoughts of a modern, urban man who is trying to express his feelings to a woman, but feels trapped due to his fear of being disgrace in society. Two methods that Eliot uses to convey this theme are through his use of repetition and his sporadic rhyming style.Contrary to what the title implies, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is anything but a love song. It is instead quite the opposite. Prufrock is an older gentleman who views his everyday life as being vacant, black, and repetitive. Early on in the poem, Prufrock describes an evening with phrases that insinuate melancholy and depression. In line six, Prufrock describes the night as “restless” and says that the streets are “tedious arguments of insidious intent”. From this the reader can infer a certain discontentment that Prufrock has with his surroundings. As the poem continues, Prufrock describes his desire to court a lady
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Approximate Word count = 668
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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