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Essay Archive - Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney
Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the story of a single
character, a timid, middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to himself.
The epigraph, a dramatic speech taken from Dante's "Inferno," provides a key to
Prufrock's nature. Like Dante's character Prufrock is in "hell," in this case
a hell of his own feelings.
He is both the "you and I" of line one, pacing the city's grimy streets
on his lonely wal....
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