Ts Eliot's Poetry Response

At the beginning of the 20th century there was many new changes, and this meant there was new questions to be answered, also new ideas to explore. At this time there was a new modern community that had been known and T.S. Eliot's poems were a way to live inside that world during that era. Eliot's use of the way he made us visualize events in the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock" by showing his emotions towards his community during the early 20th century.
During Eliot's time, there were many visible changes happening within the end of the 19th century. A rise in technology meant bigger, a change an area or country so that it builds factories and starts manufacturing lots of things, including cities and the problems that came with it.

Eliot is constantly switching the tense in which the poet is speaking, making the reader feel as if things are going by quickly and we are speeding through this man's life. Prufrock feels that he has a lot of time to say what he wants to say but that is not the reality. He states that "in fact there will be time" (37) as his excuse to dance around the subject and we come to realize that time is passing fairly quickly for this man in line 40 when he says, "With a bald spot in the middle of my hair." Here, we see that Frubrock is a middle old man who is sharply dressed. From this certain line, we know he is old and a person who cares deeply of what others might think of him. Because of that, he never brings up the courage to ask his life changing question that he wants to ask. The poet is afraid of rejection, stating his worst fear is his love telling him, "That is not it at all,/ That is not what I meant, at all."(97-98) Prufrock ends up dying an old man, never having completed anything amazing and interesting in his life. Eliot's poem of this man, shows his distaste and hatred for others like this, as well as his fear for ending up as someone with a lot of regrets. He produced a lot of poetry and books during his time, and he was someone that did not want to live as Alfred Prufrock

People are what make the city, and he is not a fan of what people are becoming with the coming of the century. It is important to say that many of Eliot's poems were written during the time of the first world war, and his poems reflect that. Elliot's poem was made way before the start of war and his feelings towards the people never changed. The city was home to a new set of people that the poet did not care for or had any feelings towards them. These people only care about their appearances and not causing a scene. They lived day to day and experienced no new thrills, just a basic modern life. They made plans for their futures, but constantly put it off in fear for the unknown. When people began to settle in with their lives and felt comfortable with the know, The quote, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be/ Am an associated lord, one that will do/ To swell a progress, start a scene or two/ Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool/ Respectful, glad to be of use"(111-114), best sums up his feelings. Frubrock gave up trying to make a change. The poet, Frubrock is content being the side character of his own story. Eliot's feelings toward these high functioning members of this community are all the same. They are, "(using common sense), cautious, and careful/very clean" (116), and "Full of high legal punishment/time spent punished..." (117), but their words lack meaning and to Eliot, they are no better than the