Let's Talk About Creativity
Let’s Talk About Creativity, The Magnificent Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock In 1915 a controversial poem titled “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was released by T.S. Eliot. It is a first person stream of consciousness narrative based on a man at a social gathering who is having some social anxiety. This character is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man; an overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally stilted figure. The main character Alfred speaks about his love for the women of the party and talks about them in high regard but he is much too afraid to dare to have lived life. He effectively wrote a poem representing the typical modern man by incorporating the inner thoughts of Alfred as well as many rhetorical devices explaining why he does not feel confident in his ability to interact. Beyond the skin of the poem T.S. Eliot also incorporated elements of what one would presume were his emotions during the time period in his life while writing the poem. He wrote this poem in such a way that effectively portraits how deeply inside humans are all scared of life and are therefore constantly bored of life. Prufrock as a character represents every human being’s thoughts at one time or another. He is at an evidently large party and yet the reader does not read about any dialogue Prufrock is having for he is too scared to talk to anyone for he is afraid they will judge him for what he says and how he acts. Everybody must admit that at one point or another in their life they were scared of what they thought their peers were going to think about them and that this though held them back from doing something they actually wanted to do. Throughout the poem Alfred is also obsessing over all the little details of the people in his close vicinity, for example he notices the women as they walk past and speak of the dreamy manliness of Michelangelo. The fact that Prufrock would obsess over such a small detail as what the individuals in