Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)

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work I like. But it will never be at the top of any of my
lists. In this “song” , JAP (J. Alfred Prufrock) is writing a letter to
his honey, the girl he is in love with. In this poem Eliot uses a lot of
visual imagery, he is very good with his adjectives and brings such a happy
correlation of thought into a grim reality he would call his “Waste Land”.
He talks of how :

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo. - TLSJAP stanza 13 and 14

It has been my thought that this may signify his “type”. Eliot, again was
an intellectual and then so he would most likely hang out where the smart
people were and get away from:

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurant with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent. - stanzas 6-9

He actually gives the evidence to where he found his women, and how he
likes to stroll through the outdoors and ending up in places of eloquence,
and “High Society”. Even though he ...

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