T.S. Eliot - “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Modernism T.S. Eliot - “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Warmup literary terms and vocab on page 706 Literary terms: dramatic monologue, allusions Vocab 10-15: tedious, insidious, digress, malingers, meticulous, obtuse Read T.S. Eliot biography on page 707 Write 5 important points in notebook
Things to consider when reading poetry: structure (stanzas, format, etc.) diction (connotation) tone speaker - voice/perspective imagery literary devices - allusion, onomatopoeia, etc.
What to look for in “Prufrock”: diction - pay attention to connotations imagery stream of consciousness - mimics how a person thinks jumping from one idea to another
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Who is the speaker? What do we know about the speaker? How can we describe him? What is the speaker doing? How does the speaker view the world? How do we know this? What is the tone of the poem? Why would T.S. Eliot write such a poem? (Make a connection to the broader world at the time)