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3. //Title//: The poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a love poem. The title shows this and the poem itself shows how love is always moving on but it is always changing. The way the poem is written makes it sound more realistic and paints a picture with the way it’s described. From the title with my best guess is that it’s saying that J. Alfred Prufrock is the guy that is in love with someone that seems to not like him back.

4. Genre “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a lyric poem. It expresses emotions of love and insecurity. The speaker is J. Alfred Prufrock. He is on his way over to a party or gathering and is discussing his feelings at the moment

5. FORM • The poem is not divided into stanzas. • This poem uses the Regular verse form. • I believe the regular verse format of the poem I perfect for the feeling and meaning of the poem. It s if the guy is depressed and is speaking aloud rhyming with every other line.

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9. //Other elements//: The mood in this poem is depressing when it describes all the surroundings. It makes you depressed hearing about the smog and the yellow fog. Its as if the writer wants every one to think that love makes you depressed. The poem references with a guy that is in love and from it he gets warn down by losing weight and his hairs thinning. The whole story is gloomy and saddening. The writer sounds like he has just had a bad relationship with someone he deeply cared for, and now he doesn’t care if he dies.

William Hake's Analytical Paragraph The poem I read,"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", by T.S. Eliot, is a poem about an aging man who is sadly coming into reality that he is less attractive as the years go by, and the women he likes do not like him back. The line that I see as proving this is,'Time to turn back and descend the stair, with a bald spot in the middle of my hair."(Pg.1027) The quote represents the man's state of mind, that he is aging, becoming uglier, and having self doubt issues when it comes to women. Another quote that was found to be revealing the poem meaning was,"I am no Prophet- and here's no great matter;/ I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,/ And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,/ And in short, I was afraid."(Pg.1028)This also shows that the man is contemplating whether or not people laugh at him whens he walks by, or how he see's himself past his prime. The poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" can bedescribed in a simple sentence. Age comes to you whether you like it or not, and you can either embrace it or sulk over it, but there is times when you become depressed over it, and become a sad hermit.

Terrence Saylor's Analytical Paragraph

The Love Song of J. Alfred Frylock seems to try to make love sound depressing and confusing through out the whole poem. They make similarities of the guy’s surroundings to his feelings. This makes the reader confused but he feels sad. When it talks about the fog it are as if it wants the reader to feel depressed, because when you think about fog you feel real down and gloomy. It also mentions about a guy losing hair and weight which is usually due to old age, and using this it seems as if its saying the guy is ding or close to death which also makes it relate to sadness. All of the poem was depressing and gloomy which made the reader feel sad.

What “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” means to me is that the character is meeting the family of a girlfriend or fiancée and he is nervous. They are on their way over to a house or meeting place because he says, “let us go and make our visit” (Eliot 1026). He talks about the women he is going to meet or visit when he says, “In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo” (Eliot 1026). In lines 37-48 he describes how he is nervous about going over. This is what I feel this poem is about. -Jared Reed