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The poem explores the central thematic of urban decadence and modern decay behind the background of a love song and unrequited love. It emphasizes its anti-heroic stance concerning an urban man as Prufrock could not propose, and his love remained unrequited.
This poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock stands foremost in the poems Prufrock and other Observations (1917). It marks a complete break with the nineteenth-century poetic tradition. It is urban in its theme and setting.
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot is a modernist poem narrated by a middle-aged man who grapples with mortality and inexpressibility.
This ground-breaking modernist poem has attracted many interpretations, involving everything from psychoanalysis to biographical readings, but it remains an elusive poem. Background context. T. S. Eliot wrote ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ while he was still a student at Harvard University, in his early twenties.
In this paper, I analyze the actions of the titular character of TS Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in the context of modern-day existentialism. I argue that Prufrock's social anxiety is an external manifestation of his deep internal conflict with the existential concerns, especially those of meaninglessness and loneliness.
