Essays on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: An Analysis:
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Prufrock, taken as a whole, is a fairly daunting work. However, when the plethora of allusions is broken into and unraveled, it becomes very slightly more manageable.
Lines thirty-seven and thirty-eight allude to Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress. Marvell's poem is one of seduction. Through it, he attempts to get his lady to go to bed with him. He tells her that there is really no point in coquetting, that there is little enough time in life as it is, don't waste time not sleeping with him.
Prufrock is rather the antithesis of this entreaty. His whole life is spent putting off his relationships with the world around him, especially his relationships with women. Marvell has a very direct way of speaking to his lady, indicative of a very direct relationship. Prufrock, on the other hand, has much more circuitous language, and the fact that he represents the opposite of Marvell's sentiments indicates that his relationships with women will be of an opposite nature. His relationships are, in fact, nonexistent. He spends his whole life getting around relating to women.
This may be because he is afraid that he cannot trust women. This is alluded to in lines 124 and 125, in which he refers to the "mermaids singing." This is taken from John Donne's Song, in which he bemoans the nonexistence of a true woman comparing her to a whole slew of impossible ideas. In this poem, the speaker asks for the addressee to teach him, if all these impossible things are indeed possible, to hear mermaids singing. Prufrock seems to think they are possible but that he is somehow excluded from them.
Works Consulted
Blythe, Hal. "Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Explicator v. 52, n. 3, p 170 Spring 1994. Http://arts.ucsc.edulgdeadlagdllstella.html#eliot
Smith, Gerald. "Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Explicator v. 21, n. 2, 1962: #17.
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