The_Love_Song_of_J._Alfred_Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Philosophers recognize the harmony and duality of the universe with symbols like Ying and Yang. The title character in T.S. Eliot’’s poem, ““The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”” has not. The poem is an internal monologue where Prufrock reveals himself as lonely and timid. Prufrock is a man in conflict with his duality, the society he has to live in, and the long lost dreams of his youth. Hot and cold, fire and water; duality is part of nature. Prufrock is not in harmony with his two sides. On the surface Prufrock is like a field mouse, frozen by fear who asks, ““Do I dare' And Do I dare'”” Inside is a tiger that knows there is time to murder and create. Prufrock is a tiger in the body of a field mouse. Prufrock’’s field mouse is what society sees. Instead of cats and owls, ridicule and rejection are his natural enemies. Prufrock fears he is prufrock, society, tiger, poem, mouse, man, knows, field, duality, alfred, youth, teaspoon, reveals, prufrock’’s, monologue, life, internal, himself, harmony, fears, fear, dreams, dare, ying, yang, wriggling, waves, water, wall, waiting, universe, unable, two, ts, title, timidity