Prufrock AO5

• Prufrock is a man 'so paralysed by an overwhelming anxiety about the possibility of getting things wrong that he never arrives at decision, let alone action' 


  Seamus Perry
• The listener in Prufrock could be Prufrock's inner self, one that prods him but fails to move him to action - or a repressed part of himself/alter ego

  Psychoanalytic viewpoint
• Prufrock projects his repressed sexual desires onto the fog
• Prufrock is 'perhaps a speculative portrait of whom he might be if he takes the wrong path'


  Kaveney
• 'The damnation of a bourgeois boredom that can only be escaped by some radical act truth-telling' 


  Kaveney
• "Incorporates a vast array of other poets' voices, all of which speak in and through the overarching voice that is Eliot"


  Green
• Eliot 'tears literary voices from one context to relocate them in another' in order to 'enter a dialogue through which roles and voices are constantly negotiated and renegotiated.' 


  Green
• Eliot plays a 'literary-linguistic game' with his reader


  Green
• Eliot's detached voices are 'the effect of Eliot looking at himself from the outside, arranging himself' 


  Ackroyd
• Prufrock is 'spoken by a talking-head figure whose attitudes and motivations you are invited to see through' 


  Howarth
• There is a 'tangible absence of intimacy' in Prufrock.

  Stillman