The Modernist Angst in T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Words: 717 1958T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" first published in 1915 is a big deal in modernist poetry digging deep into the messed-up minds and worries of the early 1900s. The main guy in the poem J. Alfred Prufrock struggles with feeling out of place in the city and never quite measuring up. Eliot's way with words—mixing up thoughts painting vivid pictures and using symbols—creates a complex story about loneliness doubt and how time just keeps on ticking. […]