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Comparing The Skating Party And The Love Song

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Between the texts, The Skating Party by Merna Summers and “The Love Song” by J. Alfred Prufrock, Nathan from The Skating Party and Prufrock from “The Love Song” both illustrates regret due to fears and lack of confidence towards love. Due to hesitations and outside forces, Nathan and Prufrock cannot be in love with whom they truly love in which leads to their regret and sadness. In these two texts, one does not wait for love, in contrast, finding love and companionship requires confidence and action. In the same way, Nathan from The Skating Party and Prufrock from “The Love Song” use personification in a similar manner to emphasize the desire and impact for love. However, the conflicts in these two stories are different as Nathan has an external conflict with Delia and Eunice, on the other hand, Prufrock has an internal conflict. Nevertheless, their differences in conflicts both …show more content…

To conclude, The Skating Party by Merna Summers and “The Love Song” by J. Alfred Prufrock share similar uses of personification. Although they have various conflicts, but their differences demonstrate the same manner of regret and they result in the same theme. To begin, these texts use personification in similar ways to emphasize the need for love. In The Skating Party, Nathan notice his love toward Delia, but due to her marriage with Dobson Sykes, Nathan would not confess to Delia. Nathan regrets his decision as he manipulates himself that Eunice is whom he loves. Once he realises his true feelings toward Delia, he says “I would expect love to call out love” (Summers 5). In the poem,“The Love Song”, Prufrock illustrates his lack of confidence which leads him to hesitate to confess. Prufrock uses personification to express his sadness toward love as he says, ‘I know the voices dying with a dying fall/Beneath the music from a farther room/So how should

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