The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | T. S. Eliot - Line by Line Analysis
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- What is the central theme of Eliot's "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock? What are the meanings of the complicated references and allusions in the poem? How is Prufrock a representative of the modern man?
This video will help you understand the complete meaning of the poem, through an in-depth line-by-line explanation in easy language. The lecture is made specially for English Honours students but it will be useful for any reader who wants to understand Eliot's poetry. The written materials provided below will further help students write answers for their exams.
Chapters
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0:00 Intro
01:28 Title
02:39 Epigraph
05:52 Line 1 (Let us go then...)
15:56 Line 15 (The yellow fog...)
22:30 Line 37 (And indeed there will be time...)
26:04 Line 49 (For I have known them all already...)
33:48 Line 73 (I should have been a pair of ragged claws...)
39:31 Line 87 (And would it have been worth it...)
49:55 Line 111 (No! I am not Prince Hamlet...)
59:17 Line 126 (I have seen them riding seaward on the waves...)
Word meanings
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etherized: anaesthetized
insidious: cunning
presume: suppose
wriggling: twist and turn with quick writhing movements
digress: deviate
scuttling: running hurriedly
malinger: pretend to be ill in order to escape duty
snicker: laughing scornfully
deferential: respectful
wreathed: decorated with flowers
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Line 49 to 51: It is the woman lying on bed with an arm behind her head in a motel room on the half deserted street. Light was off but there was the light from street that came through the glass window.
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I finally figured out the Overwhelming Question, and just how ambiguous the answer Dr. Prufrock gives. The overwhelming question is "to be, or not to be," and his answer is "I am not Prince Hamlet, and was not meant to be." I don't know if he's saying "not meant to be" in the same way the Melancholy Dane means, or if he's saying "I'm not even going to consider Hamlet's question... I'm just going to grow old."
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After watching the full play of Macbeth, what struck me was the idea of time as innately destructive. In physics, there's the metaphor of "the arrow of time," which is why we remember the past and not the future, but in Macbeth, fate and destiny is not just an arrow, but a dagger pointing the way. Yet, much like Prufrock, the Waste Land, and the Four Quartets, time still moves in cycles that repeat themselves, like the lilacs blooming in spring (but not before the primroses), the women coming and going, the tides of the sea where the mermaids sing, and the Thane of Cawdor committing treason and dying in a noble way that impresses those who survive him for the manliness of it.
In that sense, the easiest piece of this poem to miss is the rather ordinary phrase, "I grow old." It's not a particularly poetic phrase, but it is a paradox. "I grow" is an anabolic phrase. Children grow, plants grow... growing is what an additive process that shows an increase in life-force, but he breaks it with the term "old," that he's actually not growing at all. His muscles aren't growing, they're growing *thin.* It would be like saying "the *deforestation* of Birnam Wood *grew* until there were only two trees left."
Another thing I realized about Eliot's poems from your 10+ hour analysis of Macbeth is that most people think "I do not find the Hanged Man" in The Waste Land is about Christ being absent from the post-war world, but I think the reason is that Hecate's gender isn't mentioned at all in the play Macbeth, and in fact is hinted as being masculine, but is in fact the Hanged Women, being an aspect of the goddess Artemis, the Archer of Fate. To quote from the Golden Bough:
In Greece the great goddess Artemis herself appears to have been
annually hanged in effigy in her sacred grove of Condylea among the
Arcadian hills, and there accordingly she went by the name of the
Hanged One. Indeed a trace of a similar rite may perhaps be detected
even at Ephesus, the most famous of her sanctuaries, in the legend
of a woman who hanged herself and was thereupon dressed by the
compassionate goddess in her own divine garb and called by the name
of Hecate. Similarly, at Melite in Phthia, a story was told of a
girl named Aspalis who hanged herself, but who appears to have been
merely a form of Artemis. For after her death her body could not be
found, but an image of her was discovered standing beside the image
of Artemis, and the people bestowed on it the title of Hecaerge or
Far-shooter, one of the regular epithets of the goddess.
I knew I was missing something important, so I put on a performance of Macbeth.
Prufrock: Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
Lady Macbeth: And make our faces vizards to our hearts,
Disguising what they are.
Prufrock: There will be time to murder and create, [...] And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Isn't Macbeth about not only the visions, both prophetic and post-traumatic, but also about the revisions? Arguably, had Macbeth not revised his plan of assassination to encompass Banquo and Fleance, he could have been safe. Safer still would have been to accept the title of Thane of Cawdor and been "an attendant lord, one that will do
/To swell a progress, start a scene or two."
Prufrock: "Before the taking of a toast and tea."
Macbeth: "I drink to the general joy o' the whole table,"
Lady Macbeth's Doctor: "Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:"
Prufrock:To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”-
If one, settling a pillow by her head
Should say: “That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.”
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Since around 1988, I assumed "etherized" really did mean knocked out with general anesthesia, completely unconscious, ready for surgery.
But I recently heard a song that sampled from Johnny Depp's performance as Hunter S. Thompson in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' and I think Eliot may be speaking more about the loss of control. To quote Thompson:
“This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally... you can actually watch yourself behaving in the terrible way, but you can't control it.”
That sounds exactly like what's going on with Prufrock right now.
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Ma'am I have a question.
In line no 10. (@13:55) "To lead you to an overwhelming question" Here Prufrock is referring to the readers as "you" right? So this "you" is not prufrock's eternal realist persona.
Why not? It could have double meaning. Right?
Woke up in the middle of the night yesterday with a thought, and waited to make sure it still sounded reasonable... Michaelangelo is Ezra Pound. One of the most famous quotes by Michelangelo is how he saw an angel trapped in the marble block. Ezra Pound saw the angel of "the Wasteland" in the huge marble block of "He do the Police in Different Voices." I *think* Eliot and Pound knew each other at the time of publication of the Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, but you'd know better than me.
Yes. They did know each other at the time of publication of Prufrock. But it was written in around 1911, and so far as historical records tell us, Pound and Eliot met each other in 1914.