Analysis Of J Alfred Prufrock And Preludes - 1183 Words

Elliot is seen as one of the most influential modernistic poet of all time. Elliot’s poems evidently highlight the real face of modern man and modern existence by exploring the social realms that society is placed under in a desolately described, modernistic world. TS Elliot describes the industrialised world in both J Alfred Prufrock and Preludes as a disjointed, dehumanised world where mundane activities are ever-present in people’s lives. Elliot focuses on using the character’s viewpoint through the stream of consciousness as a means of highlighting the major concerns of modernism. His poems J Alfred prufrock and Preludes disclose the major concerns of modernism associated with the backdrop of the bleak, industrialised world, that is†¦show more content†¦This notion is encapsulated in Elliot’s repeated use of rhetorical question as Prufrock regularly asks, how should I presume. Elliot highlights the rapidly changing world that encapsulates a ma jor concern of modernism, through describing the bleak and industrialised world that surrounds prufrock as he observes, ‘the smoke that rises through the pipes.’ Prufrock’s utterances throughout the poem promote his social entrapment and his alienation from the modern world as each consciousness is a cloudy domain on which Prufrock has no hope of being understood by others, ‘that’s not what I meant at all.’ The use of fragmentation further develops this notion as he can only describe parts of people, ‘I have known the arms already’ in turn dehumanising their features and emphasising how he is detached from society as he only changes for the sake of changing, ‘to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.’ As Prufrock describes the women in the poem, the vague description and Synedoche, ‘arms that are braceleted..’ suggests that his is socially incapable of making a personal connection with anyone hi ghlighting his social awkwardness in a modern world. Furthermore, Elliot portrays the rapid social change for the people of the nineteenth century by exploiting the mundane tasksShow MoreRelatedThe Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot5394 Words   |  22 PagesThe Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock A Descriptive Paper Presented to the Faculty of College of Arts and Sciences University of the Cordilleras In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Course English 2 Writing in the Discipline 10:20 – 11:45 MWF By Juan Carlos P. Canilao April 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 RESEARCH OUTLINE 3 CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 5 CHAPTER II: DISCUSSION 6 Thomas Stearns Eliot amp; Why He Writes Poetry