See the analysis templates for poetry analysis in the AP exam here:
Poetry Prompt AP Lit Exam
Text of the poem:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20220
Ideas and discussion points:
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
- dramatic monologue
- The speaker is not the author.
- Equivalent to a soliloquy
- “stream of consciousness”
- The poem can be understood as the fragmentary and rambling thoughts of the speaker.
- Modernism
- ennui = boredom + desperation
- alienation
- loss of coherence
- inability to access the past
- fear of the future
- paralysis
- “the overwhelming question”
Discussion:
- Why do you think the poem is called a “love song”? (irony alert)
- Give a brief character analysis of Prufrock. What makes him “modern”?
- Whom is Prufrock addressing? Who is "you"?
T.S. Eliot reads his poem
Some analysis and hand holding through the poem:
http://www.shmoop.com/love-song-alfred-prufrock/analysis.html
Prufrock films and mash-ups:
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