T.S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is an interior monologue of a city man who is struggling with emotions of loneliness and inadequacy. It is regarded as one of the most intensely emotional and visceral poems, and it is still relevant today. The theatrical monologue, which was comRead more
T.S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is an interior monologue of a city man who is struggling with emotions of loneliness and inadequacy. It is regarded as one of the most intensely emotional and visceral poems, and it is still relevant today. The theatrical monologue, which was common from around 1757 until 1922, is a version of what is being discussed. James Joyce, Robert Browning, Henry James, and Marcel Proust are a few authors that have written theatrical monologues. Prufrock is a pioneering example of “stream of consciousness” literature, despite the fact that it is far closer to Browning than Joyce.
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Personification: Eliot employed a personification technique, which is the application of feelings to inanimate objects. In the poem, he personified trees and other things. The trees are shown as humans in the line "the tree waved as I walked by," and they wave at him. Also, he represented "Yellow foRead more