Analytic Response: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot (Essay Sample)

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Analytic Response: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Eliot writes in first person, a technique that keeps the poem fresh and entertaining. The writer tries to critique the modern society and its prevailing inane social rituals that are pretentious and superficial. The poem is set in the upper middle class society that associates itself with tea parties and gossip. The poem begins with an epigraph. The epigraph has been used to deliver a clue to the readers on the purpose of the poem. The epitaph may seem irrelevant until it is placed in context of the whole poem. From the epigraph it is clear that this is not an ordinary love story as suggested by the title.
The poem is about Prufrock a man suffering from isolation, frustration, impotence and indecisiveness. Prufrock laments about his lost opportunities and unattained loves. He is aware that he is going through physical and intellectual inertia and as a result he recognizes his mortality. He can see the potentials of life like possible love, companionship, joy and heroism but he is afraid that he is too old and inadequate to pursue them.
The poem presents random thoughts going through an aged man’s mind it brings out the narrative technique used in literature called stream of con...