The “Modern Man” in predicament—The Art, the Mood and the Theme of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", commonly known as"Prufrock", is a poem by T. S. Eliot, Published in Chicago in June 1915, it presents a stream of consciousness in the form of a dramatic monologue, and marked the beginning of Eliot’s career as an in fluential poet. This paper aims at exploring its theme of modern people’s predicament through a detailed analysis of the imagery and fig ures of speech used in the poem. Also, a moderate part will also be given to its stream of consciousness skill in the poem and its contribu tion to the theme of the poem.     

Time and Consciousness in T.S Eliot’s The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

The relationship between time and consciousness is what T.S.Eliot concerns much in his early modernist poem The love song of J.Alfred Prufrock.This paper is an analysis of the way Eliot employs the stream of consciousness technique to create a typical Western modern man who suffers greatly from meaningless life and spiritual crisis.     

The Writing Techniques of T.S Eliot——Analysis of The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

During T.S. Eliot's(1888-1965)whole life he left us a lot of fortune, and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is considered as one of Eliot's finest and most important works. A lot of scholars and critics have done different researches on this poem.The author of this paper tries to analyze one of these poems from the perspective of T.S. Eliot's poetics.     

Images in Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, which marked the beginning of Eliot’s career as an in?fluential poet. Prufrock is the image of an ineffectual, sorrowful and depressed w...     

Images in Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, which marked the beginning of Eliot’s career as an influential poet. Prufrock is the image of an ineffectual, sorrowful and depressed western man in twentieth century. Eliot used a lot of images to reveal the city as a wasteland, the tedious life of the western modern people, and the bewildered and split personality of western people. Eliot succeeds in reflecting inner world and spiritual state of modern people with the long, fragmented images,which influence future writers.     

Analysis of T.S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

As one of T.S.Eliot’s earliest and most famous poem,"The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is characterized by typical modernism.It reveals the psyche of the "modern man" in predicament represented by Prufrock who is trapped in a dilemma about whether to make a change of his life or not.Making use of various artistic techniques,the poet successfully explores the theme of the spiritual emptiness and frustration of people in modern western society via the protagonist’s melancholy debate with himself.     

An analysis of“The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”

T.S.Eliot ’s poem,"The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock",different and unusual,is difficult to interpret.T.S.Eliot rejects logic connection,thus his poems lack logic interpretation.He himself justifies himself by saying:he wrote it to want it to be difficult.The dissociation of sensibility,on the contrary,arouses the emotion of readers immediately.     

A Comparative Image Study of two Love Songs——The Sun Rising by John Donne and The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot

The Sun Rising is one of the most famous metaphysical poems of John Donne.The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock is known as the first Modernist poem of T.S Eliot.This paper mainly aims to analyze the strikingly unconventional images use in the two poems,and make comments on their effect on expressing the poet emotions.     

Hesitation is the Deepest Misery——A Brief Analysis on the Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

T.S Elliot’s the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is just Prufrock’s inner monologue revealing that he was ripped apart by the struggle within him between his sense and his sensibility. According the analysis of the whole song, we can find that the speaker is a vacillating person, his character leads to his tragedy. His hesitation brings him the deepest misery and suffering.     

On the Self-portrait of Modern Men in T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock

T.S.Eliot,a great American poet in the twentieth century,is a spokesman of the Imagist Movement.He emphasizes describing the rotten Western civilization and the decayed morals after the First World War.Prufrock that T.S.Eliot described in his early poems is timid,hesitant,sensitive,anxious,lack of will and confidence;This paper will analyze the detailed behaviors of the characters in Eliot’s early poems and reveal the major image of modern men more clearly.     

Wandering Around Salvation and Temptation——The Analysis of the Characteristics of Prufrock

Prufrock in the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a split character with timidity and hesitation, who wanders around salvation and temptation. This paper tries to analyze his paradoxical psychology with the analysis of the poem.     

An Everlasting Theme of Human Beings——Comments on Love Poems of the Renaissance,Romanticism and Modernism

Poetry is one of the most important literary forms in English literature.Love is an eternal theme among poems of different periods.Influenced by different social backgrounds,the poets express their strong feelings from different perspectives.By employing the methods of literature review and comparative study,this paper attempts to explore their images,themes and other literary characteristics,which contributes to better understanding about the love theme.     

The Use of Defamiliarization in “The Old Man and the Sea”

Defamiliarization is an important theory of the Russian formalism.Hemingway might not have been influenced by formalism,but defamiliarization assumes an integral part of his creation.His use of defamiliarization makes The Old Man and the Sea an epoch-making masterpiece.The paper is an attempt to explore the artistic charm of the novel by analyzing Hemingway's use of this artistic technique.     

The Discussion of the Character of Santiago in“The Old Man and The Sea”

"The Old Man and The Sea"is Hemingway latter years’masterpiece,with which he was awarded the Nobel prize in1954.As the protagonist of the novel,Santiago plays a vital role to the novel’s motif.Hemingway expresses his attitudes toward the life through the image of Santiago.The paper intends to explore the character of Santiago from different facets and angles.In the end,we reach a conclusion that Santiago is a strong-willed man with a young,indestructible soul,he is kind,sensitive as well as hardworking.In a ward,he is a perfect Hemingway hero.     

The Issue of “Art for Art’s Sake” in The Nightingale and the Rose

The Nightingale and the Rose is the masterpiece of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales,he is famous in American literature as an outstanding representative of aestheticism.This paper uses the method of comparison to analyze the theme,and introduces the aesthetic ideology.The aim is to express that the main purpose of this tale is its educational role,not just "art for art’s sake".     

The Nature of Man and His Place in the Universe——A Comparative Study of An Essay on Man and Gulliver’s Travels

As leading figures in English literature during the Neoclassical period,Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift both showed great concern with the nature of man and his place in the Great Chain of Being.They both emphasized the irreplaceable role of reason in guiding man in his self-positioning in the universe,and pointed out the tragic,pathetic,or detestable fall man was vulnerable to in case of violating the law of nature.Pope attached more importance to setting right man’ s position as against God and beast,while Swift showed more interest in the chain of being within the human society;Pope kept warning man against his pride and possible ruin as a result of his ambition,while Swift worried more about man’ s degradation due to loss of reason.     

Run away from Spiritual Emptiness——An Analysis of the Theme of The Beast in the Jungle

<正>The Beast in the Jungle tells a love tragedy:The two young English people--John Marcher and May Bartram encounters in London after they first met in Italy ten years ago.Marcher has always had a feeling that one day an awful destiny will fall on him,just as he is to be attacked by a beast crouching in the jungle.So he requests May to watch with him.Out of love,May promises