"The Love Song Of J.Alfred Prufrock" is perhaps Thomas Stearns Eliot's most well-known poem; as the epitome of a modern poem. The poem is comprised of text which is the voice of a neurotic, paranoid modern man - Prufrock - who is obssessed with time, mortality, and social conduct. Eliot's meaning in 'Prufrock' is to describe aspects of the Modern world. I will explain how we get this impression of Prufrock and more through …showed first 75 words of 1072 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1072 total…objective correlative or the facts of the Modern World in which was just beginning to develop during his life. Repetition reinforces a sense of uncertainty. Symbolism imaginatively portrays certain physically unrelated aspects in a Modernistically fragmented way. Irony makes fun at certain aspects to create the mock-hero (the modern version of the hero); he also uses allusion, rhetorics and metaphors to create this pessimistic view of the modern world and this old man - Prufrock.