The Illusion of Being a Leading Character
I absolutely adore "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." It's a classic mainstay that you were probably tortured with in English class, and that teacher very well could have been me.
The following stanza is one of my favorite passages in the poem, along with the exquisite sibilance of "scuttling across the floor of silent seas" and the often-quoted phrase about the coffee spoons:
This stanza is replete with the poem's themes of estrangement, longing, anxiety, and disappointment, as any professor worth their salt would point out in class. Sounds recognizable?
Eliot's group is known as the "Modernists" for a reason. It's simple to picture Eliot reading the news today while still alive.
Today, we might interpret this stanza if it had been written.
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