In the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Eliot offers a critical and pessimistic vision of the modern spiritual condition T.S. Eliot¡¦s poem, ironically titled a ¡§love song¡¨, is carefully constructed in a series of fragments; the consequent tonal and structural discontinuity, as well as abruptly shifting images and focus, dramatises a scattered life and a fragmented human psyche. The poem details a moral and spiritual journey, a descent suffered by …showed first 75 words of 1059 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1059 total…song of lamentation is powerfully passionate as it encompasses, through Prufrock, the hollowness and despairing reality of modern existence. Thus, the lament lures us to share T.S. Eliot¡¦s longing for an idealistic state of spiritual wholeness where meaning, passion and truth are in fact as they were in the worlds of The Bible, Dante, Shakespeare and Marvel. But, having lured us, T.S Eliot¡¦s ¡§Love Song¡¨ ends in destruction of the tune.