Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney


"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the story of a single
character, a timid, middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to himself.
The epigraph, a dramatic speech taken from Dante's "Inferno," provides a key to
Prufrock's nature. Like Dante's character Prufrock is in "hell," in this case
a hell of his own feelings.
He is both the "you and I" of line one, pacing the city's grimy streets
on his lonely walk. He observes the foggy evening settling down on him.
Growing more and more hesitant he postpones the moment of his decision by
telling himself "And indeed there will be time."
Prufrock is aware of his monotonous routines and is frustrated, "I have
measured out my life with coffee spoons":. He contemplates the aimless pattern
of his divided and solitary self. He is a lover, yet he is unable to declare
his love. Should a middle-aged man even think of making a proposal of love?......

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