T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as a Modernist Work
T.S. Eliot sat at the cusp of the twentieth century and, dually, the modernist period. This period was marked by changes on the outside of people’s lives with things such as war, technological advancement, and class struggles all occurring throughout the period. There was also change taking place on the inside of people’s lives. Self-reflection, self-awareness, and the human psyche were brought into question and served as focal points within many literary and artistic works of the time. Eliot, in writing “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” , painted the reader a vivid picture of many of the emotions and issues that were present during this time and, in doing so, emerged as one of the pinnacle writers of this era.
The first reason this work can be seen as modernist is through the atmosphere created by the narrator. The period of time in which the modernist era of poetry existed was, as the title suggests,......
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