T.S.Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock questions and answers
Q.1.Who is Prufrock?
Answer: J. Alfred Prufrock is a presumably middle-aged, intellectual, indecisive man.
Q.2. From where is the name “Prufrock” derived?
Answer: The name “Prufrock” in the title is derived from a firm of furniture dealers in St. Louis.
Q.3. What is the tragedy of Prufrock?
Answer: His tragedy is that he is a man driven by desire for something that he cannot achieve.
Answer: His tragedy is that he is a man driven by desire for something that he cannot achieve.
Q.4. Why is the title of the poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ironical?
Answer: The title of the poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is ironical. Here irony lies in contrast, what we expect and what it turns out to be. The title makes us expect that it will be a romantic love song addressed to the beloved. The protagonist will lay bare his heart, bubbling with effusions of love, at the feet of his beloved. He may even grow eloquent in her praises. But nothing happens of this sort. There's no expression of love in the poem.
Answer: The title of the poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is ironical. Here irony lies in contrast, what we expect and what it turns out to be. The title makes us expect that it will be a romantic love song addressed to the beloved. The protagonist will lay bare his heart, bubbling with effusions of love, at the feet of his beloved. He may even grow eloquent in her praises. But nothing happens of this sort. There's no expression of love in the poem.
Q.5. What was the original title of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
Answer: T. S. Eliot originally entitled this poem “Prufrock Among the Women.”
Answer: T. S. Eliot originally entitled this poem “Prufrock Among the Women.”
Q.6. What does the name “Prufrock” suggest?
Answer: The name “Prufrock” suggests a kind of wispy, defeated idealism, and fatuity.
Q.7. What type of work is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
Answer: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a modernistic poem in the form of a dramatic monologue.
Answer: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a modernistic poem in the form of a dramatic monologue.
Q.8. When was the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock published?
Answer: Thomas Stearns Eliot published the poem in Poetry magazine in 1915 and then in a collection of his poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, in 1917.
Answer: Thomas Stearns Eliot published the poem in Poetry magazine in 1915 and then in a collection of his poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, in 1917.
Q.9. Who is the speaker/narrator of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
Answer: The speaker/narrator of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is Prufrock, a balding, insecure middle-aged man who expresses his thoughts about the dull, uneventful, mediocre life he leads as a result of his feelings of inadequacy and his fear of making decisions.
Answer: The speaker/narrator of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is Prufrock, a balding, insecure middle-aged man who expresses his thoughts about the dull, uneventful, mediocre life he leads as a result of his feelings of inadequacy and his fear of making decisions.
Q.10. What is the setting of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
Answer: The action of the poem takes place in the evening in a bleak section of a smoky city. This city is probably St. Louis, where Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) grew up. But it could also be London, to which Eliot moved in 1914. However, Thomas Stearns Eliot probably intended the setting to be any city anywhere.
Answer: The action of the poem takes place in the evening in a bleak section of a smoky city. This city is probably St. Louis, where Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) grew up. But it could also be London, to which Eliot moved in 1914. However, Thomas Stearns Eliot probably intended the setting to be any city anywhere.
Q.11. Who is the listener of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
Answer: The listener is an unidentified companion of J. Alfred Prufrock. The listener could also be J. Alfred Prufrock's inner self, one that prods him but fails to move him to action.
Answer: The listener is an unidentified companion of J. Alfred Prufrock. The listener could also be J. Alfred Prufrock's inner self, one that prods him but fails to move him to action.
Q.12. Who are the women in the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
Answer: They are the women at a social gathering. J. Alfred Prufrock would like to meet one of them but worries that she will look down on him.
Answer: They are the women at a social gathering. J. Alfred Prufrock would like to meet one of them but worries that she will look down on him.
Q.13. Who are the Lonely Men in Shirtsleeves?
Answer: They are leaning out of their windows and smoke pipes. They are like J. Alfred Prufrock in that they look upon a scene but do not become part of it. The smoke from their pipes helps form the haze over the city, the haze that serves as a metaphor for a timid cat- which is J. Alfred Prufrock.
Q.14. From where is the epigraph of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock taken?
Answer: The epigraph of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock poem is a six-line quotation from Canto 27 of the Inferno by the Renaissance Italian poet Dante Alighieri.
Q.15. What story does the Inferno tell?
Answer: The Inferno tells the story of how Dante who has messed up his life badly enough to require some help from the nice folks in heaven. With a view to scare him away from sin and other bad things. heaven sends another poet named Virgil to give Dante a guided tour through the horrors of Hell (In English the horror of Hell known as "Inferno" in Italian).
Q.16. Who tells the quoted lines of the epigraph?
Answer: Guido in the Inferno tells the quoted lines of the epigraph.
Q.17. What is the meaning of the epigraph in English?
Answer: “If I thought that my reply would be to someone who would ever return to earth, this flame would remain without further movement; but as no one has ever returned alive from this gulf, if what I hear is true, I can answer you with no fear of infamy.”
Q.18. Why does Eliot choose this epigraph for his poem?
Answer: The epigraph suggests a couple of things. Firstly “J. Alfred Prufrock” might not be a poem about good people, but about bad ones pretending to be good. The setting of the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock poem is a kind of hell. Secondly, it tells us that this fellow Prufrock, who is singing his “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” might be concerned about his reputation like Guido. In other words, J. Alfred Prufrock is going to tell us things because he thinks we won't have a chance to repeat them to other people.
Q.19. Why is the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 'dramatic'?
Answer: The poem is “dramatic” because it is written in the voice of a speaker other than the poet.
Q.20. Who is the speaker of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
Answer: The speaker of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfrea Prufrock is Alfred Prufrock.
Q.21. What does Prufrock invite his beloved?
Answer: He invites his beloved along with him through the modern city.
Q.22. In the opening line, the speaker states, "Let us go then, you and I." Who is the "you" here?
Answer: It is not clear who "you" is. But the title gives us a hint. Love songs are usually sung to people you are in love with, so it is a safe bet that Prufrock is addressing someone he loves.
Q.23. What does Prufrock compare the sunset to?
Answer: The speaker (J. Alfred Prufrock) compares the sunset to a "patient etherised upon a table."
Q.24. Why do you suppose Prufrock would compare a sunset to some hospital patient who has been anesthetized and is waiting for an operation?
Answer: It's one of the most famous opening images. The image compares the evening sky to a patient strapped to an operating table and given ether, a kind of anaesthetic, to numb the pain of the surgery that is about to happen.
Q.25. Where does Prufrock want to take the woman he loves?
Answer: It is usual that a lover wants to take his beloved through someplace romantic- a moonlit beach, a tree-lined avenue, or that sort of thing. But Prufrock is going to take his beloved through "half- deserted streets," where people walk around "muttering" to themselves.
Q.26. What does the speaker refer to the surrounding cityscape?
Answer: The speaker of The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock refers to the surrounding cityscape as having "one-night cheap hotels" and “sawdust restaurants."
Q.27. What kind of restaurant does the street have?
Answer: The street has "restaurants" that have "sawdust" on the floor to clear up all the liquor that people are spilling as they start to get drunk, It is also littered with oyster-shells that no one bothers to clean up.
Q.28. What highlights Prufrock's middle class sentiments?
Answer: J. Alfred Prufrock purpose to his lady love in imagination to visit the cheap hotels or the sawdust restaurants which highlights bis middle class sentiments.
Q. 29. Why does Prufrock want to conceal the purpose of his visit?
Answer: J. Alfred Prufrock is so nervous that he cannot utter the proposal of marriage to her. So he wants to conceal the purpose of his visit.
Q.30. What is window pane?
Answer: A window pane is a piece of glass in a window.
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