Literary Analysis Of J. Alfred Prufrock

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This poem by T.S Eliot is not all about a love song rather quite the opposite. This poem however may be interpreted in a different form as it is quite open. J. Alfred Prufrock who is the narrator of the poem is quite disappointed with the kind of society he lives in. Looking at different aspects of literature used such as imagery and the intended audience, one can easily tell the view of Prufrock on life. The interpretation the narrator has about life can be deduced to bleak, vacant and repetitive.
At the beginning of the poem, the scene created seems unwelcoming as Prufrock describes it in a dressed, melancholy manner. (Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels, Line 6) also he goes ahead to talk about the “tedious arguments of insidious intent”, looking at this one can easily tell that the narrator is not quite happy with the type of surrounding he has. “And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells” This clearly shows that he is completely dissatisfied with the type of life he is living at the moment.
There is more imagery such an allusion that shows how Prufrock is dissatisfied with the environment he
He has a thinking that if he does so, it will come out as a huge mess. This makes him say that he is no “Prince Hamlet nor was he meant to be”. He goes ahead to refer to himself as an “attendant lord” or “the fool1”
In summary “The Love song of J.A. Prufrock by T.S Eliot” is a poem speaking about a man in search for something to save him from the dull life he has been living. Prufrock is a timid person who is very conscious about what other people think of him and this mind set affects his actions by a great deal. He has a lot of problems about expressing what he feels, as well as very self-conscious about how he looks and appears and has a mindset that people are always talking about how he looks or worse what he is

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