Prufrock Mood

expressed that all death is the same, and one will go out of the world

Beginning in the first stanza we open with a peaceful and joyous mood of the outdoors and then it ends with closing the day. Assonance is used in the first line where the vowel “e” sound is really empathized to make those words deepen in sound. Lawrence employs a lot of metaphors in his poem by having mother nature and

Eliot begins “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by using an epigram from Dante’s Inferno to set the theme of the poem. By alluding to a story about a journey through Hell, readers can infer that Prufrock will also take readers on a journey through Hell, only this time it is a living hell. Upon examining the first couple of stanzas, it is clear that Prufrock is afraid of living his life, so much so, that time has become illusory to him. Eliot writes, “Time for you and me, and time for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of a toast and tea” (369). The poetic device of repetition to portray never-ending time proves Prufrock fools himself into believing he has all the time in the

Poetry can sometimes allow one to explore the unknown. However, in some works of poetry, one can realise that some known ideas or values remain relevant to current society. This is certainly applicable to T.S. Eliot’s poems, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Rhapsody on a Windy Night. Eliot’s manipulation of poetic techniques in both these poems allows the responder to realise that some ideas prevail in both modern and post-modern society. These poems explore the unknown phenomena of the obscurity regarding the purpose and meaning of life. This unknown phenomena causes the persona in both texts to resort to a sense of isolation or alienation. Eliot uses poetic techniques such as metaphors and personification to convey his ideas.

It might be helpful to regard this poem, like the others, as a video post-card of this moment, six o'clock on the winter's evening. Eliot used words as his way of painting the picture.

Eliot spoke about has been achieved by Amy Lowell magnificently. Therefore, she reached the Traditional sense as both the Historical and Traditional sense are the faces of the same coin. She knew that the past and the present are both connected by one web. It was apparent when she connected the chain of events in the poem to her advantage just to show this problem. The problem by living a life of “patterns” and being bound by society, which makes this poem not that original, because many people spoke about this problem before, but she herself as a talented writer, she added more to it. These “patterns” would represent us going into life with the same cycle over and over, almost like a daily routine, that each day takes a part away, till we all left empty-handed without any sort of feelings or

J. Alfred Prufrock constantly lived in fear, in fear of life and death. T. S. Eliot divided his classic poem into three equally important sections. Each division provided the reader with insight into the mental structure of J. Alfred Prufrock. In actuality, Prufrock maintained a good heart and a worthy instinct, but he never seemed to truly exist. A false shadow hung over his existence. Prufrock never allowed himself to actually live. He had no ambitions that would drive him to succeed. The poem is a silent cry for help from Prufrock. In each section, T. S. Eliot provided his audience with vague attempts to understand J. Alfred Prufrock. Each individual reader can only interpret these

Prufrock later mentions, “I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,”(106.84). These words resemble to the saying “I saw my life flash before my eyes” and it begins to define time again. That life goes by fast and we may not always have time by our side. Soon after he points out the truth of being afraid. Eliot seems to be pointing out that we as people can be afraid of things we want to do or achieve in life. Although Eliot uses Prufrock, a man who is moaning of his life and decisions that could be to a lost love, he is also using his words to express the words and thoughts of people and theme of time.

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is considered to be one of T.S. Eliot’s most admirable and significant poems, and remains to be a relevant read today. It is the story of a man actively debating his emergence from his bubble of isolation, into the real world; Prufrock dwells in a capsized state, prompted by the fear of every decision he has ever almost made. The speaker of the poem has a very distinct and eerie tone, as the complexity of the tone reflects the intricacy and multilayered persona of the speaker of the poem. Symbols regarding the weather and animals, amongst other things, are embedded throughout this one-hundred and thirty-one line poem. Aspects such as the tone of the speaker, the lofty symbolism, as well as the use of imagery

The poem that is in discussion is entitled “Where I?” written by the great Robinson Jeffers. In the poem Robinson shows the reader an imagery of a woman who has come towards the end of her life, and only has a life expectancy of one year. He described her physical form as being evidence of this, giving reader the depiction as if it was possible to see death taking over her life force slowly each day. Even the older woman herself was aware of it and could easily see her hour glass coming down to its last grains. But through this Robinson makes the reader aware that a change starts to occur in the woman’s attitude, where she starts to exuded was something totally different from the description he gave of her before. The new way he described her

Throughout the poem, Thomas relates the passing of a day to a lifetime. He refers to death as ‘that good night’ and ‘the dying of the light’ repeatedly. This metaphor shows the inevitability of death, in the same way that the end of each day is inevitable. Additionally, this metaphor comes at the end of the last line of each stanza, making the form imitate the ‘good night’ coming at the end of the day and death at the end of life. Despite this acknowledgement of the assuredness of death, Thomas insists that ‘old age’, a use of metonymy to represent the elderly, should ‘burn and rave at close of day’. Burning

Transition: In the poems Frank Bidart “If See No End Is” and T.S. Eliot’ “Gerontion” there are plenty of comparable aspects between the two pieces of work. The relationship between the tone of each poem is very similar. In Eliot’s paper the tone is set by the main character in, in this case an old man. Similarly, in Bidart’s poem there is a main character that sets the tone of the story by the way they express it. Specifically, in both poems the tone is shown by the pessimistic view of both characters of their respective poems. The old man in “Gerontion” is pessimistic because of how the world around him is and how people are losing their religion. Likewise, in “If See No End Is” the character is pessimistic because of what he perceives the world to be, because of his negative outlook on like because of him being a victim of being bullied.

Eliot’s creative use of poetic form is one of the hallmarks of “The Wasteland” and greatly contributed to the overall tone and mood. The structure of the poem is uneven and almost discordant. It rapidly transitions between various unrelated scenes at a rapid pace. For example, “I read, much of the night and go south in the winter/What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow…” (19-20) illustrates an abrupt shift in the setting which includes the speaker, time, and place. In the first line, the reader is listening to the story of Marie. In the second line, however, the reader has been transported to a desert: a literal wasteland. This choppy stream of images emphasizes a message about society: like the poem, society does not progress smoothly and can even be unpredictable.

All words, phrases and sentences (or just simply images) which make up this poem seem to, in Levi-Strauss’ words, “be a valeur symbolique zero [and the signifier] can take on any value required ”, meaning that the images Eliot uses do not have one fixed signification and consequently conjure up thought-provoking ideas that need to be studied (qtd. in