![]() ![]() Like an over-conscious, rather a despondent intellectual, Prufrock, under the oppressive environment of modern metropolitan life, thinks of himself as a sort of worm, wriggling on the wall. The triviality and vanity of this life are patents to him and he has neither any illusion about nor any attachment to this life. Indeed, Alfred Prufrock, as Eliot presents him, is a typical modern man who sees and knows thoroughly well modern life, with all its emptiness, sophistication, and insignificance. On the other hand, he is an unsteady intellectual of modern metropolitan life, who is prompted to weigh every issue carefully and not responsive to the spontaneity of his emotion, has desires and inclinations, even romantic, but lacks courage and conviction for any bold venture or prompt execution. Prufrock is truly no eager lover, with an intense share in the passion or pang of love. He is rather a neurotic character, created in the urban environment, one who feels easily confused, bewildered, helpless, and not certain of his actual intention or the objective of his pursuit. Prufrock is actually a modern man, a middle-aged average modern man, without any robust personality, steadiness or determination in his plan or purpose. In reality, he seems to be a resident of a modern metropolis, without any stamina, determination, and strength of purpose. It is doubtful whether he is a serious lover or a man, seeking love as a refuge from the exhaustion of the mechanical urban life of modern times. He seems to have no real feeling, no actual intent, no exact purpose. His love has actually no beginning, no middle, and no end. He differs from the conventional warm-hearted lover of Astrophel and Stella and Amoretti or even of Shakespearean sonnet series. Prufrock’s song, in fact, though titled as a love song, is no conventional song of love. This sense of incapacity leads him to express, in the form of a monologue, his own views, and apprehensions, but there is nothing of the song of love or of the amorous passion of a lover in this monologue. The situation in Prufrock’s life has dramatic suspense, for he is confronted with a problem, which may be of a marriage proposal that he has no courage to speak out. Alfred Prufrock, as already implied, looks like a dramatic monologue, in which the hero gives out his own feelings and fancies. The intense passion of love, which may be expressed in diverse manners, constitute the essence of such a love song, Again, the dramatic monologue implies a sort of narrative poem, in which an objective analysis by the speaker, through his love speech expresses his feelings, experiences, and reactions at a certain state of affairs and situations rather too tense to stir him violently.Įliot’s The Love Song of J. In a love song, the poet’s main concern is to express the passion of love of a particular man or woman, as seen in different sonnets, love poems, and other lyrical verses. The poem may here be likened to Robert Browning‘s The Last Ride Together. Indeed, from this angle, the poem looks like a monologue, rather a dramatic monologue, as it is spoken in a dramatic situation. At the same time, the poem stipulates a dramatic situation in which alone speaker, of course, the hero Prufrock, gives out his views and opinions, experience and apprehension. Alfred Prufrock carries the title which implies that the poem is related to the song of love of a certain person, J Alfred Prufrock.
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