Prufrock essay prompt

Analysis of Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock August 30, 2019 by Essay Writer T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” begins with an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno. Translated, it reads: “If I thought that I was speaking/ to someone who would go back to the world,/ this flame would shake no more./

“Prufrock” demonstrates the isolationism of the modern man through several techniques: the use of the framing devices (the title, the epigraph, the first lines) to set the mood of the piece; the isolation imagery throughout; the structure of the poem itself to suggest the most important ideas; and the concluding lines.

The simple “taking of a toast and tea” requires “a hundred indecisions” and “a hundred visions and revisions.” He is so repressed that tea is a major trial. It is clear that the actions of everyday life bring great turmoil to Prufrock. He does not know how to act and does not know how to say what he wants to say.

He has been condemned to a kind of hell by his inaction.This hell is cast in a yellow light. Images of yellow overwhelming the landscape abound: “The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, the yellow smoke that rubs its back upon the window-panes” (15-16).