Landscape in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot

Landscape in The revere stock of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot Although the full phase of the moon consequence within T. S. Eliots dense poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock proves difficult to grasp, the deep kernel packed into every word makes the seeking to understanding this poem a never-ending adventure. Scenery in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock re haves an in siftly psychological account which should never, in any instance, by taken liter entirelyy.The breathing out of m, the disarray of historical, toast and future tenses, the static forepart, and the dateless metaphor of the question produces this psychological scenery which in turn amplifies the military posture of the poem. Time in Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock plays a very substantial part in creating the landscape of the main characters narration. The evoke sense of being caught in era begins within the first terzetto lines after the epigraph Let us go then, you and I,/When the evening is spread forbidden against the deliver/ Like a patient etherized upon a table.Just desire a patient anesthetized by ether, the narrator appears trapped in a station of vulnerability at the mercy of new(prenominal)s without the existence of time. Also, the association of the sky with an object as non-moving as a stone evokes a space in which the sky or the atmosphere has no movement the loss of physical time. Time, in the case of the poem, appears endless (And and so there go away be time. pg. 4) as consequence to the narrators psychological evidence of stuckness and the sense of time becomes warped in confusion and solitude.J. Alfred Prufrocks closing off also represents a loss of time within the poem. The repetition of And indeed there will be timeThere will be time, there will be timeAnd indeed there will be time alludes, once again, to a landscape without time. Also phrases such as In the room the women come and go/ talk of the town of Michelangelo procedure repetition for the purposes of emphasizing Prufrocks monotonous existence and solitude without an endeavor of improvement. . In addition, J.Hillis Miller explains Like the women talking of Michelangelo, he exists in an lasting present, a frozen time in which everything that might possibly decease to him is as if it had already blow overed For I have cognize them all already, known them all (CP, 4). In this time of endless repetition Prufrock natesnot disturb the world even if he should presume to try to do so. Everything that might happen is foreknown, and in a world where solely one genius exists the foreknown has in effect already happened and no action is possible.Prufrocks observation yet lack of contribution emphasizes his state of solitude, and his consistent lack of contribution passim the remainder of the poem demonstrates the impaired movement in the poem Similarly, the confusion of tense also demonstrates a landscape without the existence of time. Confusion of tenses in Th e Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock substantiates the feeling of immaterial space such as whenThe yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes 1 The yellow smoke that rubs its choke on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, 4 Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, Slipped by the terrace, make a sudden leap, And seeing that it was a soft October night curl once about the house, and fell asleep. 4) 8 The first cardinal lines guide the fog in present tense, but the third in past tense. In the fourth line, Prufrock begins with past tense (Lingered upon the pools) and continues in present tense (that stand in the drains). The fifth line makes the same change in tenses and the remainder of the stanza continues in past tense. Space, explains J. Hillis Miller, must be exterior to the self if movement through it is to be more than the following of a deadening argument in the mind.In the same way only an objective time fire be other than the self, so that the flow of time can mean change for that self, therefore time has only a subjective existence for J. Alfred Prufrock. Subsequently, past, present, and future exist in the immediate moment. noneffervescent movement in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock plays an important role in emphasizing the state of the poems landscape. Essentially, J. Alfred Prufrock admits to knowing the lack of movement when In a sharp there is time/ For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.The narrators message that no event what he does, there will never by change emphasizes a desperation to move which the characters subconscious inhibits by garments and indecision. Monotony due to proclivity when For I have known them all already, known them all/Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, / I have measurable my life with coffee spoons demonstrates invariability in the narrators mind because all he poi nts out having done exists in the mind known the everyday routine, and careful every moment of his life in his mind.In addition to the narrators self-assessed lack of movement, Prufrocks narration places him in a less-than- tender position when he says, I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of noneffervescent seas. That Prufrock compares his monotonous existence as being equal to that of a channelise in the silence and stillness of the ocean floor directly demonstrates his obstructed existence.The continuance of the unanswered question also demonstrates mental deadlock because although the overwhelming question crops up multiple times passim the poem, the narrator does not or cannot explain the question, nor does an answer arise. The lack of progress demonstrates an eternal present in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. In addition to the endless time in The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock the metaphor of the question symbolizes the barrier bet wixt Prufrocks mind and the outside world. The actual unanswered question throughout the story may demonstrate a lack of movement, but it extends such(prenominal) farther than a question. All that is miscommunication and incommunicable acts as an extension to the significance of the question. end-to-end the poem, Prufrocks struggle to communicate with both the characters in his mind and the indorser demonstrates his self-acknowledged impotence.The inability to communicate when Prufrock says, In the room the women come and go/ Talking of Michelangelo(4) demonstrates the barrier between Prufrock and society because Prufrock never approaches the characters of which he speaks, he only watches from an unknown distance in an unknown location. Although Prufrock does not approach these figures of society, the moments there is communication demonstrates social flaw. J.Hillis Miller explains that Prufrocks vision is incommunicable, and whatever he says to the peeress will be answered by, That is not what I meant at all. /That is not it, at all. The lady is also imprisoned in her own sphere, and the two spheres can never, like soap spill the beanss, become one. Each is impenetrable to the other. The last five stanzas of the poem show a change in scenery which seems to switch to the seaside and then into the chambers of the sea which restores his certain wish to have been a creature of the sea.This scene also demonstrates the consequences of act communication between the outside world and the narrator when We have lingered in the chambers of the sea/ By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown/ Till human voices wake us, and we drown. This passage, especially the end line, displays the effect of outside vitiation on Prufrocks mental state. The result of drowning as consequence to the human voices isolates the bubble that is the narrators existence from the outside world which, once penetrated, can no longer function. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock capture s the landscape inside the mind of the narrator through many subtle and abstract ways. The intense meaning of the poem captured through the mind of the character uses the loss of time, the confusion of past, present and future tenses, the static movement, and the eternal metaphor of the question in evidence to produce an intensely psychological landscape. The obvious amount of thought and sudor embedded in the language of the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock demonstrates the great meaning seen within Eliots poetry.