The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- First Published: 1915
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Alienation, Poetry or poets, Dreams, Nightmares, Fear, City life, Human behavior, Life, philosophy of, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Mermaids or mermen, Allusions
The Work
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a psychological profile of a white, middle-aged, middle-class, late Victorian man suffering from an acute spiritual malaise as a result of his boring, unimaginative, routine, repressed bourgeois existence. The poem, T. S. Eliot’s first major publication, immediately established his reputation as an important poet. It also announced one of the themes that Eliot explored throughout his career: the emptiness of modern life, made tedious by habit, sterilized by convention, in which self-awareness does not lead to...
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