Essay on "Love Song OF J.Alfred Prufrock" by Thomas Stearns Eliot.

"The Love Song Of J.Alfred Prufrock" is perhaps Thomas Stearns Eliot's most well-known poem; as the epitome of a modern poem. The poem is comprised of text which is the voice of a neurotic, paranoid modern man - Prufrock - who is obssessed with time, mortality, and social conduct. Eliot's meaning in 'Prufrock' is to describe aspects of the Modern world. I will explain how we get this impression of Prufrock and more through …

…objective correlative or the facts of the Modern World in which was just beginning to develop during his life. Repetition reinforces a sense of uncertainty. Symbolism imaginatively portrays certain physically unrelated aspects in a Modernistically fragmented way. Irony makes fun at certain aspects to create the mock-hero (the modern version of the hero); he also uses allusion, rhetorics and metaphors to create this pessimistic view of the modern world and this old man - Prufrock.