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• Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  To understand the message conveyed by this poem, a bit of historical context is necessary. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” stems...

• Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

• Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

• Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

• Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  This statement evokes careful precision: Prufrock rations his life in slight doses, not allowing himself joy or excesses. It...

• Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  The mermaids that Prufrock imagines are a wonderful example of symbolism. When Prufrock imagines his solitary old age, he...

• Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  To call this poem a “love song” might at first seem to be deeply ironic, given the sense of alienation and despair that...

• Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  This is a particularly apt question due to the epigraph from Dante’s The Divine Comedy that precedes the poem. In...

• Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was written by T. S. Eliot, one of the great Modernist poets. Modernism as a movement...