The Love Song Of J Alfred Proofrock

The Love Song of J Alfred Proofrock This poem, the earliest of Eliots major works, was accomplished in 1910 or 1911 but not published until 1915. It is an enquiry of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man--overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. Prufrock, the poems speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to "force the s to its crisis" by somehow consummating their relationship.

But Prufrock knows too much of life story to "dare" an approach to the woman: In his mind he hears the comments others make about his inadequacies, and he chides himself for "presuming" emotional interaction could be possible at all. The poem moves from a series of evenhandedly concrete (for Eliot) physical settings--a cityscape (the famous "patient etherised upon a tabulate") and several interiors (womens arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces)--to a series of vague ocean images conveying Prufrock...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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