blog numero whatever "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

                Eliot has a very subtle tone in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by creating imagery of the characters and scene in the poem.  It is also seems to be for those who can really appreciate the very essence of the poem like the very cultured or intellectual.  For instance, the very beginning of the poem does not start on line one but before it.  The excerpt from the Dante's Inferno is aimed at an audience that is able to read latin and is cultured in the arts.  All that aside, Eliot shows his first imagery of the city by letting the audience know about what type of city it is from stanza one through three.  The yellow fog like a cat helps create the notion that it slips around the city very subtly by creeping through the cracks of doors tracking anywhere it can.  It also is a definitive detail about the city.  Since it is yellow it means that the city is an industrial city that burns a lot of coal. This city is bound by the seashore according to line seven that mentions oyster-shells, which is an aphrodisiac, which also lets the reader know more about the city. 

                Prufrock himself is a very peculiar man as Eliot describes him to be a frail, pail, and nervous individual.  He is plagued by the passionate idea of acquiring something that he cannot attain.  He questions himself multiple times throughout the poem on whether or not he is good enough or worthy to go after a trophy he thinks is mystical.  This prize is a higher class of female that is like no other he has been around and they attract him because of their uniqueness.