However, he is hesitant to take part in the activity for fear of making a fool of himself. Alfred Prufrock: The speaker/narrator, a timid, overcautious middle-aged man who escorts his silent listener through streets in a shabby part of a city, past cheap hotels and restaurants, to a social gathering where women he would like to meet are conversing. However, Eliot probably intended the setting to be any city anywhere. Louis, where Eliot grew up or also could be London, to which Eliot moved in 1914. The setting of the poem is in the evening in a bleak section of a smoky city. He does try to make progress, but his timidity and fear of failure inhibit him from taking action. Unable to seize opportunities or take risks (especially with women), he lives in a world that is the same today as it was yesterday and will be the same tomorrow as it is today. The speaker 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. Only the narrator talks and intentionally and unintentionally reveals information about him. It presents a moment in which a narrator/speaker discusses a topic and, in so doing, reveals his personal feelings to a listener. This poem is inner monologue, which means that everything in the poem is spoken from inside of Prufrock’s mind. With its weariness, regret, embarrassment, longing, emasculation, sexual frustration, sense of decay, and awareness of mortality, Prufrock has become one of the most recognized voices in modern literature. The poem is described as a “drama of literary anguish,” presents a stream of consciousness in the form of a dramatic interior monologue. Alfred Prufrock is commonly known as Prufrock. Prufrock’s doubt that he deserves the answer he desires from the woman transforms the poem into a kind of interior monologue or soliloquy in which “To be or not to be?” is for Prufrock “To be what?” and “What or who am I to ask this woman to marry me?” This establishes a connection with Hamlet’s famous soliloquy (“To be or not to be?-That is the question”). Indeed, over the course of the poem, he sets up analogies between himself and various familiar cultural figures, among them Hamlet. The poem is composed of Prufrock’s own neurotic and lyrical associations.
The poem centers on the feelings and thoughts of the persona.
Alfred Prufrock,” often called “the first Modernist poem. And it is also very helpful for the English teachers to get the idea about the poem for classroom teaching. It will be useful for the students or any individual to gain basic knowledge on elements of poetry and its figure of speeches. It is purely academic research based on works citation from the websites and books. This is only a commentary on the poem and does not cover each and every detail about T. Alfred Prufrock”, which is one of the prescribed poems in Major English BA course. It tries to give brief glimpse about T.S. Abstract -This piece of writing is for the bachelor level students of English in Nepal.
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