Themes in Poetry and Contemporary Media

Poem Analysis

In the verse "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot, the major feature, J. Alfred Prufrock is glimpsed as an anti-hero. His feature and persona arrives through powerfully in the verse as a timid and introverted man who is communally inept, exceedingly self attentive, needing in self self-assurance and wallowing in self-pity, yet yearning for persons to observe him. The composer displays this through his use of allusions, mighty imagery to conceive vignettes of Prufrock's life and the pattern of the verse as a disorderly train of considered, implying other than telling.

Throughout the verse, T.S. Eliot values numerous allusions in alignment to show Prufrock's feature and identity. The first such allusion is to the biblical feature John the Baptist in lines 83-83; "Though I have glimpsed my head (grown somewhat bald) conveyed in upon a platter, I am no prophet - and here's no large matter." This allusion mentions to the detail that John the Baptist was performed by Salome and conveyed to her on a platter and that Prufrock sees himself in an identical position; as a forfeit to women. This reflects the detail that he is self attentive and careful when it arrives to relationships.

Another allusion to a biblical feature was to Lazarus, who, like the feature in the epigraph at the starting of the verse, went to torment, but came back to life and conversed about it. This allusion, like the epigraph, is aligned to the poem. Prufrock sees himself as being in hell; because of his need of communal proficiency, and like the individual in the epigraph, likes to converse about his knowledge because he feels that he will not ever get out of it. T.S. Eliot values "I" and "you" to display the two edges to Prufrock; his outside edge as the cautious polite man which is how remainder of the world perceives him, and his inward edge, the communally inept and timid being he sees himself as, and because he is aghast to air his sentiments to any individual, he proceeds through it in his own mind. This afresh displays his introverted environment and insecurities about life.

T.S. Eliot furthermore values allusions to Hamlet. Prufrock values Hamlet as a demonstration of what he is not. Hamlet was a tragic champion, a man who was the centre of vigilance and past away in a tragic and heroic ...