Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
In his poem " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot is talking through the speaker about the absence of love; The poem, far from being a song, is a meditation on the failure of romance. The speaker of this ironic monologue is a modern, urban man who feels isolated and incapable of decisive action. The experience of the speaker, Prufrock, is set against an unnamed woman that represents womankind.
The poem opens, "Let us go then, you and I," with the speaker inviting the reader along to hear his story as though he trusts the reader or one can only understand him when taking this journey into Prufrock's psychology. The reader, though, is not to ask "What is it?", just yet...