He is unable to even make the simplest decisions for himself. However despite this old age, he is still impotent. The yellow fog representing his impotence and emasculation fills the entire setting.Īs the poem develops, Prufrock describes his own maturity and old age.
He never gets up from his seat while the “yellow fog” closes in around him. He follows his life and laments how he spent his life believing that “there will be time, there will be” (27) but then never being potent to change his destiny. Eliot is the inner monologue of a city gentleman who is stricken by feelings of isolation and inadequacy and. One of the first true modernist poems, The Love Song of J. The steam seems to follow the conscious of Prufrock as he examines what his life has been. Eliot plays with stream of conscious throughout the work. This work plays with many new techniques modernist writers were wrestling with. He talks about their arms, their eyes but never their souls. He refers this to women and how he only knows their body parts, not them as people. Alfred Prufrock between February 1910 and July or August 1911. He states how he “has known them all already” which he restates to open multiple stanzas. Alfred Prufrock is a man who never experiences true love, with only passing encounters with women. Also known as ' Prufrock ,' this was the first major poem of note that Eliot published. It is titled as a love song however no love even takes place in the poem more specifically, J.
This was created as an honors capstone project at Rutgers University in the Fall a. Despite it being one of his first published poems, it was widely popular though viewed as controversial it shot him to fame as a modernist writer.Īt its core, this work is paradoxical. An animated adaption of T.S Eliots 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was one of Eliot’s first poems. Published in 1915 with the help of Ezra Pound, The Love Song of J.
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