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T.S. Eliot started writing "Prufrock Among the Women" in 1909 as a graduate student at Harvard. He revised it over the next couple of years, changing the title to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" along the way. First published in the Chicago magazine Poetry in June 1915, "Prufrock" later…

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How does Prufrock see himself ?
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Last updated by: Aslan on Mar 28, 2013 9:45 AM
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What is the significance of the images of the city in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
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Last updated by: Aslan on Feb 02, 2013 10:11 AM
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how Eliot in “Prufrock” portrays his character’s loneliness and the causes for his solitude. Is Prufrock’s loneliness an example of self-­‐alienation?
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Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Dec 12, 2012 11:21 PM
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Do Eliot in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Yeats in the “Second Coming” portray the modern world in a similar way? How do the two poems differ in their portrait of modernity?
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Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Dec 09, 2012 7:46 AM
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does Prufrock still represent our modern reality?
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How do you interpret the last 3 lines of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
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How does Eliot disorient the reader in the poem so you get a sense of the confusion that Prufrock is experiencing?
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Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Dec 09, 2012 7:27 AM
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How do the views of the city in Eliot’s poem compare with the views of London in the beginning of Conrad’s novella? What does the profound different between the two point of views tell us about time in which each text is written?
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Last updated by: sidi l #267815 on Dec 09, 2012 4:13 AM
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Paying careful scrutiny to the text, make an argument for whether you think the poem suggests the possibility of such communication, or if, as far as the poem is concerned, such a wish is impossible.
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Last updated by: Aslan on Sep 18, 2012 11:02 PM
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what is the meaning of the simile "streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent." from the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Sep 14, 2012 8:37 PM
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who or what do you think prufrock was afraid of?
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Last updated by: Aslan on May 03, 2012 7:11 PM
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what do the mermaids symbolize?
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I need help with T.S. Eliot "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"
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Last updated by: Aslan on Apr 10, 2012 9:52 PM
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Imagery in 'The love song of J.A.Prufrock'?
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Modernism in Love Song of J.A. Prufrock?
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Prufrock - men-women relations?
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In the poem The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock the theme fo his own self(the spirit and soul) and the listener, how is all this used in the poem?
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Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Jan 06, 2012 5:09 PM
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Where in the poem that illustrate Prufrock's regret?
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Last updated by: Aslan on Nov 10, 2011 8:16 PM
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To whom is Prufrock speaking to? Is it woman or us? What is the 'overwhelming questions' that he repeats many times?
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what is the allegory in the poem?
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Last updated by: Aslan on Nov 02, 2011 12:59 PM
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in the opening line who is "you"
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Last updated by: SirCity on Oct 31, 2011 9:39 AM
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is the peach a symbol of sex?
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Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Oct 26, 2011 3:10 PM
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justify the title the love song of j.alfred prufrock
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Last updated by: SirCity on Sep 28, 2011 8:36 PM
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why do people believe that "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was the first "truly modern poem."?
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what crutical appreciation of the love song of j. alfrrd prufrock?
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