T.S. Eliot艾略特 普鲁弗洛克的情歌

Major themes
2. Temporal repetition and anxiety
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Prufrock's paralysis roots itself in the poem's structure. Eliot deploys several refrains叠句, such as "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" (1314, 35-36) and "And would it have been worth it, after all" (87, 99), to illustrate Prufrock's tendency to get stuck on a problem.
the title "love song"
clear insights into his sterile life
strong desire for love
hundred times of indecisions and revisions
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
英语103班 10331028 王继连
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Content
• Symbolic meaning • Irony in the poem • Major themes
•Like Hamlet, Prufrock is paralised and unable to act. Prufrock's paralysis is not over murder and the state of a corrupt kingdom, but whether he should "dare to eat a peach" (122) in front of high-society women. •Prufrock is a modern tragic hero, that is to say he is a mock-hero whose concerns are pathetic yet still real.
Major Themes
1.Prufrock's paralysis 2.Temporal repetition and anxiety 3.Fragmentation
4.Debasement and Hell
Major themes
The Love Song of J. Alfred
1.Prufrock's Paralysis
Major themes
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
4. Debasement and Hell
Prufrock sweeps the reader on a generally downward ride - from the skyline to street life, down stairs during a party, even to the sea floor. Prufrock consistently feels worse about himself in these situations. The epigraph taken from Dante's Inferno also implies that modern man inhabits a nightmarish inferno.
Major themes
3. Fragmentation
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Eliot achieves much of this fragmentation through his exquisite imagery. --- subliminal comparison between the fog "that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes" (16) and feline movement ---a self-conscious dissection of how women's eyes have Prufrock "pinned and wriggling on the wall" (58). --- Prufrock's self-debasement as a "pair of ragged claws" (73), The images in "Prufrock" are specific,symbolic and not related or fragmented.
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
the coffe spoons
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Irony in the poem absence of love inability to love lacking in will to change that life
Major themes
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Prufrock's mind and voice are, better representatives of the fragmented Prufrock. ---His mind is all over the place, interrupted by self-interrogation and self -consciousness, looping back on itself, Prufrock's train of thought is deeply fragmented. His mind jumps in new directions and leave other thoughts cursorily examined or incomplete. ---The poem comes in the form of a dramatic monologue, a form that is usually fit for a resonant speaking voice. But "Prufrock" has a chorus of fragmented voices - the epigraph to Dante, the frequent allusions to the Bible, Shakespeare, and many poetic predecessors - which deny the existence of a solo voice. This, then, is Prufrock's voice: a fragmentation of voices past and present that somehow harmonize.
Major themes
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The refrains叠句 and echoes indicate Prufrock's entrapment in the present tense, and inability to escape his restrictive thoughts and fears. The swinging rhythm of the poem - at times rhymed for long stretches, often not - hints at a confusing, chaotic sense of time within Prufrock's head. The confusion establishes itself in the "And would it have been worth it, after all" line.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Discussion
In the first line "Let us go then, you and I," Who do you think the identity of "you" refer to?
Major themes
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
•Indeed, Prufrock's paralysis revolves around his social and sexual anxieties, the two usually tied together. The hero's emasculation柔弱，无力 shows up in a number of physical areas: "his arms and legs are thin" (44) and, notably, "his hair is growing thin" (41). As hair is a symbol of virility男子气, Eliot suggests that Prufrock's paralysis is deeply rooted in psychosexual anxiety. • Unable to bring himself and his world together and build a base for meaningful action,Prufock, with his physical impotence, epitomizes the spiritual impotence of archetypal modern man.