The Love Song Of Alfred Prufrock By T. S. Eliot

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The author T.S. Eliot was in my opinion a highly educated man looking at his educational background. For reference Eliot attended Harvard for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. Not to mention Eliot studied abroad in Paris as well. However, Eliot could not have been able to receive such high education if it were not for his parents who had good jobs and provided Eliot with a comfortable upbringing. Likewise in terms of having wealthy people of high attainments in one’s life, Eliot’s grandfather, a Unitarian minister, had founded Washington University! As well as being an intelligent person Eliot was a unique person. Eliot was a unique person. Eliot is unique because as previously stated Eliot did not grow up in the face of poverty. However, Eliot was a writer who captured what he saw and heard so well that he gave everyone that read his writing the feeling he knew the struggle of the common man, the horrible war , and other civil problems in the city. …show more content…

The first emotion displayed in the poem was love. The emotion of love appears when Prufrock talks of taking his friend out. For example on page 832 lines 4-7 reads “Let us go through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in the one-night cheap hotels (Eliot)”. The next emotion that appears in the poem of “The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” is embarrassment. Prufrock seemed to be embarrassed about his image to other people. As lines 37-44 in the poem read “ And indeed there will be time To wonder, Do I dare, and time to turn back and descend the star, with a bald spot in the middle of my hair( They will say: How his hair is growing thin !) My morning coat, my collar moving firmly to the chin, my necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin- are thin (Eliot). These lines further prove that Prufrock was concerned about his appearance in the