An Analysis of the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Words: 1020 Pages: 3 2237In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot offers a critical and pessimistic vision of the modern spiritual condition. T.S. Eliot's poem, ironically titled a love song, is carefully constructed in a series of fragments. The resultant tonal and structural discontinuity, as well as abruptly shifting images and focus, dramatizes a scattered life and a fragmented human psyche. The poem details a moral and spiritual journey—a descent suffered by T.S. Eliot's dramatic persona, the narrator, and protagonist, Prufrock. […]