The Metaphysical Conceits and Antithesis in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 4
Abstract
T. L. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockis popularly known as a modernist poem with experimental diction, style and versification. This paper analyses metaphysical conceits and antithesis in the title and in its contents. This poem is not a love song or romance any way, but psychoanalytical details of suppressed desires in stream of consciousness form. It is a mock heroic poem, imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic character of Alfred Prufrock.
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Raj Kishor Singh
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