TS Eliots Prufrock

TS Eliots Prufrock TS Eliots Prufrock The ironic character of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," an early sentence by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) in the form of a dramatic monologue, is introduced in its title. Eliot is talking, through his speaker, about the absence of love, and the poem, so far from macrocosm a "song," is a meditation on the failure of romance.

The effluence image of evening (traditionally the time of love making) is disquieting, rather than satisfying or seductive, and the evening "becomes a patient" (Spender 160): "When the evening is spreading out agai nst the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table" (2-3). According to Berryman, with this line begins modern poetry (197). The urban location of the poem is confrontational instead of being alluring. Eliot, as a Modernist, sets his poem in a decayed cityscape, " a drab neighborhood of cheap hotels and restaurants, where Prufrock lives in solitary sour" (Harlan 265). ...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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