What is the tone of The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock?

Answer 1

loneliness

Answer 2

I would call it melancholy

Answer 3

While Eliot's poetry most certainly has concurrent themes and imagery, there is no 'right answer' to this question. Perhaps it is Eliot's own consideration of Love, hence the title, and the imagery throughout of an inability to say anything coherent ("That is not what I meant at all./That is not it, at all."), while some might say it is Eliot considering Life as Hamlet once did, there are, after all, constant references to death and death-like imagery, as well as hints at a consideration of the infinite ("...universe squeezed into a ball").

While Eliot's intentions are important, each individual reader's interpretation is just as valid if justified (Roland Barthes The Death of the Author is an essay that deals with this issue, and is easily accessible online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_author has an accessible link at the bottom of the page)

Essentially, you have to read into the various aspects of the poem yourself to decide. Love, Death, the banality and triviality of Life, an inability to express oneself, an incoherence and inarticulate nature to the world, and many other motifs are certainly apparent. It is up to you to decide which is most relevant.

Answer 4

#life's struggles

#emptiness

#death

#time

#doubt

#wasted life

#finding meaning of modern life

Answer 5

It is an interior monologue. It tells of Prufrock's feeling towards woman and society. The imagery is of Prufrock reciting the poem to an audience. It explains it in the epigraph, which is taken from Dante's Inferno.

Answer 6

What exactly is the question?

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock was written around 1917 by T.S. Eliot

Answer 7

Allusion and rhyme