Critical analysis

This document provides a critical analysis of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". It analyzes how the poem uses dramatic monologue to convey the inner anxieties and vulnerabilities of the narrator, Prufrock. Specifically, it examines how Eliot employs literary devices like metaphor, imagery and word choice to reveal Prufrock's shy, egoistic and paralyzed personality. The analysis also discusses how the poem portrays the thoughts of a traditional western man in the early 1900s who is full of loneliness and indecision, unable to act or seize opportunities in life.