T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - Discuss

Question 1

note

Answer 1

• stream-of-consciousness style
• no set pattern to the length of lines or rhyme schemes
• poem opens with an excerpt from Dante’s Inferno
• “In the room the women come and go/Talking of Michelangelo”
• Eliot’s characterization of Prufrock as someone who is saddled with self-doubt

Question 2

the type of writing exhibited by Eliot in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – where the speaker engages in a sometimes chaotic flow of images, ideas, and unfiltered thoughts – is called

Answer 2

stream of consciousness writing

Question 3

in line 125 of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock again expresses his

Answer 3

self-doubt

Question 4

stream of consciousness writing is meant to represent

Answer 4

the natural flow of unfiltered thoughts or ideas

Question 5

the last four stanzas (lines 122-131) of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” illustrate the Imagist’s lack of a set, patterned rhyme scheme. Eliot’s “rhyme scheme” in these stanzas is:

Answer 5

a, a, a, b, c, d, d, b, e, e

Question 6

in lines 111-119 of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock sees himself

Answer 6

not as a Prince Hamlet, but as an attendant lord