A Lovely Life Song

Title: A Lovely Life Song
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1140 | Pages: 4.9 (approximately 235 words/page)

A Lovely Life Song

A Lovely Life Song “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot is anything but a love song. Nowhere in its fragmented and disjointed lines does it contain the imagery pertaining to a love poem. Instead Eliot’s poem follows more of a dream state of a man reflecting on a life imagined as hell. The imagery leads one more to think of Prufrock floating around between the inconsistent stanzas as of …showed first 75 words of 1140 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1140 total…I,” Eliot says, “When the evening is spread out against the sky/ like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go through half-deserted streets,”(L.1-4). As evening comes, Prufrock becomes like the patient, apathetic and motionless as he floats throughout the poem in his dream, “The muttering retreats/of restless nights in the one night cheap hotels.”(L. 5-6) His dream being the only meager escape from his sleepless nights in dirt laden cheap hotels.

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