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Why T.S.Eliot appeal to Hamlet in « The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock »?

Why T.S.Eliot appeal to Hamlet in « The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock »?. Cristina Girardi VB. « The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ». Written by: T. S. Eliot. Genre : P oem . Publication : June 1915. Plot: The song deals with J. Alfred Prufrock’s inability

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Why T.S.Eliot appeal to Hamlet in « The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock »?

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  1. WhyT.S.Eliot appeal to Hamlet in «The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock»? Cristina Girardi VB.

  2. «The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock». • Written by: T. S. Eliot. • Genre: Poem. • Publication: June 1915. • Plot: The songdeals with J. Alfred Prufrock’sinability to declairhis love to a woman. • Epigraph: The epigraphrefears to a meeting between Dante and Guido da Montefeltro. (Dante,Hell Canto XXVII, 61- 66).

  3. Hamlet. • He’s the protagonist of the homonymoustragedywritten by William Shakespeare. • He wants to revengehisfather’sdeathkilled by Claudius, whowasHamlet’suncle and the new king of Denmark. • Throughout the play he struggle with hissanity and with Claudius’ fault. • At the end of the tragedydyingHamletkillsClaudius and namesPrince Fortinbras of Norwayas the probableheir to the throne. • The protagonistmake a choise for hiskingdom.

  4. J. Alfred Prufrock. • He’s a middle-aged man whoisn’table to confesshis love to a woman who live in hissamepalace. • He’sunable to love because he suffers from men’scrysis of firstsyears of XX century. In thatperiod men weren’table to acceptchangements. • T. S. Eliot use the tecnique of «stream of consciousness» to presentprotagonist’sfelling, and «free verses» to shadewhat the readerhas to interpretlitterally or symbolically.

  5. Hamlet and J. Alfred Prufrock. • In line 110 of «The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock» T. S. Eliot introduce the figure of Hamlet. • Prufrockcompareshimself to Hamlet to dismisseshisimportance. • The maincontrastbetween the twocharactersis the inability of make a choise of J. A. Prufrock (middel-aged man) and the veryimportantchoise of Hamlet (a young man). • J. A. Prufrock in the entirepoemdoesn’tmakeanydecisionevenif he analyzes more timeshisproblemswithoutmakinganychoise.

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