![]() ![]() ![]() Alfred Prufrock is a short, moody, repetitious monologue of the thoughts. ![]() ↑ This page has been adapted from Pericles Lewis’s Cambridge Introduction to Modernism (Cambridge UP, 2007), pp. This poem is considered to be one of the first modernist poems.Although the poem does not reflect the war experience, having been written in 1910– 11, Eliot’s early poetry suggests the direction in which modernist poetry would move during and after the war: towards the exploration of the divided consciousness, the theme that Eliot and Pound both associated with Henry James. Alfred Prufrock seems as though Prufrock, the speaker, privately struggles with the decision of whether or. Alfred Prufrock was Eliots first professionally published poem and is one. Human beings are fitted out with abilities to employ logic and boundless emotions. The poem examines the tortured psyche of the prototypical ‘modern man’ (Eliot 176-80). Eliot in 1911 when he was 22 years old and published in 1915. The poem demonstrates some of the modern qualities that attracted Pound to Eliot: his mastery of the rhythms of conversation, which he gave form in verse, his colloquialisms, witty use of rhyme, and allusions to Dante, Shakespeare and other writers. The situation of Eliots The Love Song of J. Eliot was studying at Oxford University and published in 1915, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a poem written by T.S. I do not think that they will sing to me. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? Alfred Prufrock, published when Eliot was just 26 years old.Had it not been for the intervention of Ezra Pound and Harriet Monroe, the seminal poem that helped usher in American Modernism might not have been published at all. He will not ask the overwhelming question, for fear that she will answer “That is not what I meant at all / That is not it at all.” Instead, he accepts the onslaught of old age and decides that no romance awaits him: This month marks the 100th anniversary of T.S. Instead, he asks himself a series of questions that, while not the overwhelming question itself, do reflect his deepening anxiety: “Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” “So how should I presume?” “And how should I begin?” Convinced that he already knows what suffering awaits him-“For I have known them all already, known them all”-he decides that, although as indecisive as Shakespeare’s Hamlet, he has none of Hamlet’s greatness. On his way to this social event, he continually postpones asking the “overwhelming question,” presumably some sort of proposal to the lady who will be entertaining him. The balding Prufrock finds in an appointment for tea with some fashionable ladies the occasion for existential suffering. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero, Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo. Eliot had drafted by the age of 23, he adopted the voice of a weary middle-aged man, or indeed a damned soul from Dante’s Inferno. Alfred Prufrock S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. ![]()
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