Human Insecurity in T.S Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Ess

Human Insecurity in T.S Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockT.S Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is an examination of human insecurity and folly, embodied in the titles J. Alfred Prufrock. Eliots theme of a mans overwhelming question, his inability to ask it, and consequently, his mental rejection plays off the meters many ambiguities, both structural and literal. Eliot uses these uncertainties to develop both the plot of the poem and the extension of J. Alfred Prufrock. The poems setting is one that conjures up images of vagueness. It is filled with yellow fog and yellow smoke, both of which suggest a certain denseness and haziness. Similarly, Prufrock is faced with some other kind of mist - perfume from a dress (65) that sends him back into his spiral of insecurity. The importance of Prufrocks overwhelming question (presumably, proposing to a woman) is placed alongside items such as tea and cakes and ices (79) and various other trivialities such as novels, teacu ps, marmalade and skirts that trail across the floor(102). Prufrocks inner, mental world of thoughts and questions is divided from his outer, physical world which is composed of material objects it is dry then, that the material world inside the room is the one that is hidden by ...yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpane panes/The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window pane (15-16). Prufrock is trapped in this artificial world, however he is too afraid to escape - he asks himself if he dares to disturb the universe and apparently, he doesnt. The poem is also ambiguous regarding the identity of Prufrocks audience. Prufrock refers clearly to a you and I in the first stanzas of the poem but later... ... he feels uncomfortable with Hamlets Prince and the qualities associated with it. J. Alfred Prufrock is a tragic presage in his own right indecision being his tragic flaw. Eliots character is a compelling portrait of insecurity, trapped in a rigid and materialistic environment by his own doubts and fears and unable to reconcile his desires with his actions. Works Cited and ConsultedEliot, T. S.. The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock. Making Literature Matter An Anthology for Readers and Writers. 2nd Ed. Schlib & Clifford. Boston Bedford, 2003. 851-855.Pinion, F. B. A T.S. Eliot Companion. Totowa Barnes & terrible Books, 1986. Sharma, Jitendra Kumar. Time & T.S. Eliot His Poetry, Plays, and Philosophy. New York Apt Books, INC. 1985. Spurr, David. Conflicts in Consciousness T.S. Eliots Poetry & Criticism. Urbana U of Illinois P. 1984.