Essays on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was a remarkable piece of poetry written by T.S. Elliot that had an amazing sense of imagery and romanticism that is unparalleled to most of it’s time. Even though the lyrical style brought much to the table the…

T.S. Eliot is considered one of the most important modernist poets of the time, he was born September 26, 1888, in Missouri, U.S, and died January 4, 1965, in London, England. I.S Eliot is known as an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. The…

There is a lot in the world that there is to question from love, the world, existence, and much more. Writers and artists dedicate what they do to show us what the world was like at a certain point through their eyes. Modernism was the…

Art is a subjective and diverse amalgamation of mediums. Despite the vast array of differences, there is a heavy overlap of thematic elements. One of these recurrent themes is mental illness, and specifically its negative representation. Since the Ancient Greeks, maladies of the psyche have…

The world is constantly changing and there is nothing one can do about it. Literature changes along with the rest of the world. Writers and artists dedicate what they do to show us what the world was like at a certain point in the world…

Introduction Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess and T.S Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock are monologues that are similar in presenting middle-aged, unmarried men who are suffering from insecurities. Eliot’s 20th century The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is the story of…

Introduction The statement from ‘The Second Coming’ – the best people ‘lack all conviction,’ while the worst are ‘full of passionate intensity” – applies to the speakers in ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’ and ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.’ An Irish Airman…

Two Sides of a Coin Every man has struggled and will struggle against time. As human beings learn and grow throughout life, we struggle with our identities and how our words and actions reflect who we are. We struggle with the decision between action and…

Poetics of Prufrock Throughout the lines of T.S. Elliot’s literary work “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” there are many images that work together to establish a sense of meaning, however as a reader, I felt the most connected to the poem during my…

In T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the narrator seems to be an older man who spends a lot of time making decisions but perhaps also second guessing himself. He is unconfident and uncomfortable in his surroundings, because he is always questioning,…

Upon first reading, T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” appears to be a monologue poem spoken by the narrator to someone he loves. This is especially evident in the first stanza. The opening lines, “Let us go then, you and I/When the…