Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
- Techniques
- Allusions to historical and
literary figures
- I am not Price Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do .....
Almost, at time, the Fool.
- Dramatic Monologue
- Shows disjointed
thought process
- Presents us with a setting,
characters, dialogue
(internal), conflict and
tension
- Repitition
- There will be time, there will be
time
- Metaphors
- Compares the drifting of the fog and
smoke through the city to the movements
of a cat
- The yellow fog that rubs its back
upon the window panes
- Made a sudden leap .... and fell asleep
- The 'you' and 'I' are two sides to his personality
- Personification
- Streets that follow like a tedious argument of
insidious intent
- Tone
- Self-critical
- Fearful
- Time yet for a hundred indecisions and
for a hundred visions and revisions
- Regret
- Would it have been worth it?
- In short I was afraid
- I should have been a pair of ragged
claws scuttling across the floor
- Themes
- Isolation / Social Alienation
- Loneliness / Inability to
Communicate
- It is impossible to say just what I mean
- Imagery
- City depicted in sordid,
shabby images
- Sawdust restaurants
- One night cheap hotels
- Depicts his social anxiety
- To prepare a face to meet the
faces that you meet
- Eyes that fix you in a
formulated phrase
- Pinned and wriggling
on the wall
- Like a patient etherised upon a table
- Monotonous life
- I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
- Questions modern society
- In the room the
women come and go
talking of Michelango