According to him, the J stands for John the Baptizer to allude to the speakers prophetic impulses, Alfred is the vulgarization of the royal name while Prufrock actually is an allusion to a court jester from Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” and a metaphor for a “quality of the highest value, such as wit or sagacity”. However, Cervo (1999) feels that the name signifies several things. That Prufrock is a prude, who likes to dress in a frock coat, is a widely accepted interpretation of the name. Evans (2006) and many other commentators before him find the name Prufrock “prissy, pompous, slightly ridiculous and somewhat bourgeois”. Alfred Prufrock in the title has been interpreted in many ways. While analyzing the poem, the first thing that strikes a reader is the title.
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According to although “Prufrock” resembles free verse, it is in fact “a carefully structured amalgamation of poetic form”. At some places there are several lines which rhyme perfectly, and then there are passages where the rhyme and meter are totally ignored. Prufrock is dramatic monologue, a writing style which was perfected by Robert Browning. Writing StyleĮliot’s writing style is fragmented filled with shocking and unexpected imagery. This lack of self confidence is despite Prufrock being a fairly rich man as evidenced from the line “My necktie rich and modest…” Throughout the poem, Prufrock comes across as a shallow man, obsessed by his looks, much to his own detriment. Also, he thinks of himself as an inconsequential character in the story of life, as can been seen in the stanza where he claims that he is not Hamlet but just an “attendant lord”.įinally he sees himself as an old man, still filled with self-doubt, walking on a beach, where he can hear the mermaids sing, but he does not “think they will sing to me”, once again reflecting Prufrock’s total lack of self confidence which perhaps prevented him from proposing to his lady love when he was younger. Perhaps he himself is unaware of what he really wants from life and feels that life is passing him by and there is not much time to do the things he would like to do, that is, once he finally decides after much “visions and revisions”, what it is that he really wants to do. The poem is a monologue of a fictional character, Prufrock, who is overly concerned with what people might think about him and filled with indecision, so much that he is unable to even express himself.
Alfred Prufrock” (“Prufork” for short) is not a love song at all, but musings of a lonely middle-aged man, filled with self doubt and social paralysis. First published in 1915, the “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” launched the career of one of the greatest twentieth century poet, T.S.
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