A look at the language used in T.S. Eliot’s `The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock` and its thematic effect.
This paper examines the highly complex and patterned language used in T.S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock which discusses the struggle of an ordinary man to break through the confines of a judgmental society. The paper also discusses the use of imagery throughout the poem.
The poem,’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, was written in 1911 by T. S. Eliot. This poem appeals to the intellect and the aesthetic sense of the reader because of the highly patterned language as well as the rich aural and visual imagery used. The heightened language used is different from the language of everyday life. However, Eliot uses the situation of a man trapped within routine of everyday life within the conventions of society as a means of discussing the aridity of modern civilization and the lack of faith and conviction in anything modern man does.