LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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“A meditation on contradictions”
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“Overheard inner speech”
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“Implicit dialogue with the future”
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“Objective correlative”
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man-overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. Prufrock, the poem’s speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to “force the moment to its crisis” by somehow consummating their relationship.
Detailed explanation-2: -In T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, ” I believe Prufrock’s overwhelming question is a marriage proposal because of the severity of his indecisiveness and inner debate of whether or not to ask it.
Detailed explanation-3: -The entire poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an interior monologue based on the traditional dramatic monologue, a solo speech that often puts into words the speaker’s inner turmoil, as in Hamlet’s famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy.
Detailed explanation-4: -He was confined by the real world and had no way to change and flee. Therefore, it was his dilemma that made him could not live in harmony with the real world and then led to him spiritually paralyzed and alienated.