Author(s)

Zhen Jia

Corresponding Author

Zhen Jia

Abstract

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, T.S. Eliot penetrates into the incommunicability and insignificance of the common people’s life in the modern society. Between the 1st and 2nd World War, poetry and criticism were mainly dominated by a single figure, T.S. Eliot, who was esteemed on both sides of the Atlantic. His poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is known as the first masterpiece of modern poetry. In the poem, the poet use fragmentary images and language to illustrate Prufrock’s mental state and the fragmentation of the postwar reality. In the poem, T.S. Eliot penetrates into the incommunicability and insignificance of the common people’s life in the modern society.

Keywords

Insignificance, T.S. Eliot, Prufrock