Fearful and Hesitant Modern Men in ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ 1917
Instructor Asma Jasim Muhammad
University of Sulymaniyah, College of Languages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.1.4.9
Keywords: - Modern Poetry - Prufrock, Anti-hero - Hesitation - Secularism -Alienation.
Abstract
This paper is devoted to Eliot`s poetic critique of modern humanity
in „The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‟ which is one of the significant
poems written by Eliot in 1911 because of its new modern style and the
techniques that the poet adopted from various sources. It concentrates
on how Eliot criticises modern humanity for instance, anti-heroism,
secularism, and alienation. In addition, the study will take into account
the illumination on how the current society has over emphasized on the
issue of Michelangelo. This is a remarkable presentation of how
Prufrock views the modern people and modern life as a hell similar to
Dante's Inferno where man cannot express his feelings or doing
anything to redeem himself.
