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The Romantically Impaired Pruf - Online Term Paper

The Romantically Impaired Pruf

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T.S. Eliot's "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" depicts the complexity of the modern age. Eliot, himself justified the complexity by arguing that the poet, who is to serve as the interpreter and critic of a complex age, must write complex poetry. And certainly we would all agree that the 20th century was a complex age(Martin 423).
J. Alfred Prufrock is no Hamlet. He is a hopeless romantic at best, T.S. Eliot's poster child for 20th century aristocratic society.
Prufrock lives in a world where art and music have become the idle conversation of dilettante women who are spiritually, sexually, and intellectually dead, but for whom the meaning and life of art have long since been ...

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as an excuse to remain comfortable in his undisturbed universe. By opening the fourth stanza with: "And indeed there will be time," Eliot echoes the memorable line: "Had we but world enough and time' from Andrew Marvell's seductive poem, "To His Coy Mistress." Ironically, Prufrock does not feel compelled to seize the day(Pagnattaro 108). Prufrock repeats his
conviction that "indeed there will be time" to wonder "‘Do I dare?' and ‘Do I dare?'"-that is, first, does he dare express his true feelings to the woman he adores, and if not, does he dare to flee down the stares after he rang the doorbell, knowing that the subject of his affections may spot the "bald spot in the middle" of his hair(Pagnattaro 108). Yes, "indeed there will be time," time for Prufrock to sink back eternally among the rounds of teacups(Fryxell 111).
The second theme of Prufrock is the "Do I dare" theme, in which Prufrock questions his ability to disturb his universe. The "Do I dare" theme ...

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Added: 5/19/2007 04:52:19 PM
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