They certainly have no relation to poetry…" ( Times Literary Supplement 21 June 1917, no. The "Literary Supplement" of The London Times had this to say: "The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance to anyone, even to himself. It was considered pretty experimental at the time, and a lot of people hated it. In 1917 it was published as part of a small book called Prufrock and Other Observations. War, cities, boredom, and fear: these are all classic modernist themes.Įliot got "Prufrock" published in Poetry magazine in 1915 with the help of his buddy Ezra Pound, who was like a friendly uncle-figure to a lot of the European modernists.
The poem is set in a big, dirty city, and its speaker is a very unhappy man who is afraid of living and therefore bored all the time. At that time, Britain was considered the most modern country in the world. Eliot wrote most of "Prufrock" when he was 22 years old (!), in the years before the start of World War I. Eliot, was an American who moved to Britain in 1914. Alfred Prufrock" is totally a modernist poem. In their work, they try to make sense of all these changes, which no one quite understands. The "modernists" basically include all the artists and writers who were living smack in the middle of the huge, massive transformation from olden days to modern times, which was roughly the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. Nowadays, we’re all used to living in the modern world, but it wasn’t always that way. Welcome to the modern world – but, of course, you were here already, Mr. Then, along come all these new technologies – everything from sewer systems to railroads – and suddenly lots of people are living close together in cities, and even those who aren’t living close together are able to find out what’s going on with the help of (from oldest to most recent) telegrams, newspapers, telephones, cell phones, and the internet. They didn’t travel much or interact with one another. For most of history, most people lived really far away from one another in small villages. Okay, so you might have heard of a little movement called "modernism." Nobody out there has a great definition of modernism, but here’s ours. Whoa, whoa, hold on there a sec – what’s this all about? Ironically enough he knows that they would not sing for him."The Love Song of J. He is charmed by the dream of the song of the mermaids. The last stanza of the mermaid scene is just a means of his escape from the world of reality. Though he talks of love, he wants to assail his beloved. He feels like a pinned worm who cannot face the inquisitive eyes of ladies. As an ordinary lover, he should have been bold and aggressive, but, in reality he is cowardly and timid. Alfred Prufrock, he finds excuses for proposing his decisions. He yearns for love but he has no capacity for it. The irony of situation is that he would like to make love but there are serious issues which prevent him from doing so. The two main hurdles to the making of a proposal, are his old age and his consequent decline in health and vigour and, secondly, his reluctance to give up the single state in which he has been engaging himself in sexual intimacy with opposite sex. He analyses his feelings which reveal his helplessness and his incapacity for love. However, in the body of the poem there is hardly any mention of love making, rather the lover invents reason for postponing the proposal to the lady. Alfred Prufrock, the title suggests that the lover is expressing his love for the lady. Ironic title: In this poem The Love Song of J.
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