The Lovesong Of T. S Eliot And Not Waving But Drowning By T. S. Eliot

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.

Unlike other forms of literature, poetry can be so complex that everyone who reads it may see something different. Two poets who are world renowned for their ability to transform reader’s perceptions with the mere use of words, are TS Eliot and Walt Whitman. “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” by TS Eliot, tells the story of a man who is in love and contemplating confessing his emotions, but his debilitating fear of rejection stops him from going through with it. This poem skews the reader’s expectations of a love song and takes a critical perspective of love while showing all the damaging emotions that come with it. “Song of myself”, by Walt Whitman provokes a different emotion, one of joy and self-discovery. This poem focuses more on the soul and how it relates to the body. “Song of myself” and “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” both explore the common theme of how the different perceptions of the soul and body can affect the way the speaker views themselves, others, and the world around them.

T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an ironic depiction of a man’s inability to take decisive action in a modern society that is void of meaningful human connection. The poem reinforces its central idea through the techniques of fragmentation, and through the use of Eliot’s commentary about Prufrock’s social world. Using a series of natural images, Eliot uses fragmentation to show Prufrock’s inability to act, as well as his fear of society. Eliot’s commentary about Prufrock’s social world is also evident throughout. At no point in the poem did Prufrock confess his love, even though it is called “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, but through this poem, T.S. Eliot voices his social commentary about the world that

Elliot highlights the rapidly changing world that encapsulates a major concern of modernism, through describing the bleak and industrialised world that surrounds prufrock as he observes, ‘the smoke that rises through the pipes.’ Prufrock’s utterances throughout the poem promote his social entrapment and his alienation from the modern world as each consciousness is a cloudy domain on which Prufrock has no hope of being understood by others, ‘that’s not what I meant at all.’ The use of fragmentation further develops this notion as he can only describe parts of people, ‘I have known the arms already’ in turn dehumanising their features and emphasising how he is detached from society as he only changes for the sake of changing, ‘to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.’ As Prufrock describes the women in the poem, the vague description and Synedoche, ‘arms that are braceleted..’ suggests that his is socially incapable of making a personal connection with anyone highlighting his social awkwardness in a modern world. Furthermore, Elliot portrays the rapid social change for the people of the nineteenth century by exploiting the mundane tasks

There is a sentence in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence that states, “All men are created equal”. Now a person can examine this statement in many ways. One may think that this statement is saying all men will have the same equality rights or another may think that all men are equally equipped with tangible attributes such as toughness, strong, charming, and good looks. Ever since the evolvement of men there is a realization that not all men are created equal and in the short story by Ernest Hemingway “Big Two-Hearted River” and T.S Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” will tell a difference and some similarities between the two.

¨The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock¨, a poem by T.S. Eliot, was written shortly after WW1, a war that left millions dead or scarred for life. The subject of this poem, J. Alfred Prufrock is a victim of this terrible event. After the war, his life has drastically changed. Feelings of insignificance, looking a fool, and growing old are all characterized by Eliot’s repetition for effect, ambiguity, and allusion.

Allusions are used in literature to express the idea of one work by incorporating another piece of work into it. In T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Prufrock explains his life encounters, and his interpretations of his thoughts such as the thought of death and life experiences. The use of allusions are incorporated to explain Prufrock’s characteristics and explanations in relation to situations that he encounters. Allusions not only serve the purpose of explaining, but it also allows readers to interpret the work in a different form. With this, readers get access to a better look of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

The negativity of society’s fear of change can be best expressed by the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot. In it, the narrator (Prufrock) expresses his insecurities

Modernism has created a world that has the ability to adapt to the standards of society. The poem “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot, is a dramatic monologue which talks explicitly about a modern man named J. Alfred Prufrock who is from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, during a transitional era of traditional norms to modernism. Throughout the poem, Prufrock has an unknown factor pertaining him; his view on his life has a way of illustrating to his readers a pure uncertainty with who he is as a person, something which is outrageous because he develops a specific view on women in the poem. Since, he likes a women in the monologue, Prufrock feels a need to be very specific on what he is doing with her and when is he going to do it. By doing this, he finds a way to find out who he is as a person in society. In the poem, “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S Eliot, Prufrock’s view on life is of someone who is lost in their thoughts about their self-identity in the world, shown through the use of modernism and time relativity in the poem. This creates a self reflection on how people view their own life based upon Prufrock view on his in the sonnet.

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

In the poems “The Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock,” written in 1910, published in 1915, and “Rhapsody on a Windy Night,” written in 1917, both of which were written by poet and literary-critic T. S. Eliot, the symbolism and imagery of the women represented in mythological means, the locations and landscapes that both protagonists wander through or plan on going to, and the nature that is used in both poems are very similar, yet uniquely different. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is about a man with low self-confidence worrying about going to a party in the evening where he is sure that the women there with reject and ridicule him; “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” is about a man wandering his way back in the early hours of the morning

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