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Apart from the theme of the modern existential crisis, what are some other dominant themes and motifs in T. S. Eliot's poem "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock?

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Date Posted: 2016/01/28
Umar Abdulraheem
by Umar Abdulraheem , Substitute , Durham Public Schools

Elliot presents his character, Prufock, also as being a pessimist contributing to his indicisiveness and inadequacy and that proper relations have eluded him.

أحمد فوزي زكي اسماعيل
by أحمد فوزي زكي اسماعيل , accounting manager , chapatti Indian Restaurant

i agree with mr. pedro  brites

Aleem Salman
by Aleem Salman , ASSISTANT PROFESSOR , JUBAIL INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE

In addition to the existential , metaphysical anguish of the modern man , Prufrock also typifies helplessness , uncertainty in a totally incomprehensible world. The arbitrariness and irrationality of a dream world inhabit prufrock's consciousness  leading him to chaos , disorder , monotony , emptiness and ennui where streets seem to be following with ' insidious intent ' and the evening fog takes on the hallucinatory image of a cat. The hollowness of the modern civilization is suggested when ' in the room women come and go / talking of Michael Angelo. These women are intellectual snobs having no idea about the power of his paintings.  Prufrock tries to ward off the horror of the inevitable ( I grow old I grow old ) by measuring out his life with a coffee spoon and in doing so he makes a caricature of himself. Both Guido da Montefeltro and Prufrock are in the same situation . The former is in the8th circle of hell and the latter is in a death -like situation where everything leads to inaction. Let us go then you and I ......and then nothing happens. The question is who is this 'you'.  

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The futility, the emptiness of faith, sensorial experience of the death..

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