Proufrock Claws Across Ocean Floor

Alfred prufrock is a man who overall seems perplexed about his life and society as a whole.

Proufrock claws across ocean floor. After the skirts that trail along the floor. I should have been a pair of ragged claws. Eliot also introduces an image that will recur in his later poetry that of the scavenger. 1 the main character in t s elliot s poem titled the love song of j.

It was followed by some of the best known poems in the english language including the waste land 1922 the hollow men 1925 ash wednesday 1930 and four quartets 1945. The claws are synecdoche. Prufrock is calling himself crab like. It might also be the most accurate self evaluation that prufrock offers in the entire poem.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas t s. The poems ends with some amazing ocean imagery including the singing mermaids and the sea girls wearing seaweed. They stand for a crab which is the animal you d most likely think of as scuttling on the ocean floor. Alfred prufrock 1915 which is seen as a masterpiece of the modernist movement.

This man appears to have serious confidence issues attributed to himself growing older in age. The fact that these things occurred to the mind of mr. The crab is the perfect image of prufrock because it seems suited to a single over riding goal. S io credesse che mia risposta fosse.

He is also known for his seven plays particularly murder in the. Eliot uses the image of a crab scuttling across the ocean floor to describe prufrock s loneliness and desolation without coming out and saying i m lonely there are other examples of the. Alfred prufrock launch audio in a new window. The love song of j.

Eliot can be summed up in a contemporary review published in the times literary supplement on the 21st of june 1917 the anonymous reviewer wrote. And the afternoon the evening sleeps so peacefully. Scuttling across the floors of. Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem the love song of j. It would have been more fitting he says to have been born as a pair of crab claws that scuttle across the floor of the ocean. Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance to anyone even to himself. The initial reception to the love song of j.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws. Alfred prufrock by t s. Eliot s self described drama of literary anguish paints a portrait of the sexual and social frustration of a man obsessed with his own inadequacy. Prufrock thinks that he should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas crabs are scavengers garbage eaters who live off refuse that makes its way to the sea floor.