Teamspeak themes9/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This reduces pain in the modern world to a commonplace and merely “gentle” emotion. Allied to this, Eliot explores the decay of emotion through the paradox of some “infinitely gentle/infinitely suffering thing”. Further, the inextricable connection between the internal and external world is expressed with the assimilation of the persona’s soul with the city street (“trampled by insistent feet”) reflecting how the modern city and lifestyle assists in the decay of the ‘soul’ of humanity. Preludes: Eliot presents us with an aggregation of negative urban images, “burnt out…grimy scraps…muddy feet,” which reflect the disintegration of the modern world. Through the poem’s free verse, there is an insertion of iambic pentameter in lines 111-119 – “No! I am not Prince Hamlet…” Combined with other intertextual references, namely the epigraph taken from Dante’s Inferno and the biblical allusions to John the Baptist and Lazarus, Eliot proves Prufrock’s lack of imagination, to the extent that he cannot even claim originality over his own thoughts. The opening stanzas are of length and often digress, representing Prufrock’s dithering personality, while the ending stanzas are short and vague, representing his lack of energy and unwillingness to continue. Prufrock: The process of Prufrock’s emotional and moral decay is evident in the poem’s structure. He perceived the rise of modernisation and the lessening importance of traditional values as the cause of this decay. Eliot sustains a strong theme of the decay of the human spirit. ![]()
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