The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

does Prufrock still represent our modern reality?

Eliot’s poems about a modern alienated and frustrated man as popular today and

some argue his poems are still applicable to the world we live and the lives we

live. Do you find a similar isolation, alienation, and/or fragmentation in your own

modern lives? In other words, does Prufrock still represent our modern reality?

Why or why not?

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To say he represents out modern reality would be far from the truth, but there is a faction of people he represents, souls who like Prufrock siffer alienation and fragmentation. I've always believed isolation to be self-imposed, but I guess that would fit too. Note, I don't believe this represents a form of "modern reality."

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