1. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” By T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

2. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) Wrote poem at age 22! Strong society must have strong poetry People/society are complex, so poetry must be complex “A poem communicates before it is understood.” Blind submission to faith 1915 – War was a spiritual death

3. Modernism Stream of Consciousness The unconscious Art as artifact Juxtaposition Fragmentation (Sonnet?)

4. Devices Dramatic Monologue (Why not Soliloquy?) Synecdoche Diction Connotation (oysters? Michelangelo?) Symbol Allusion

5. Dante The Divine Comedy, The Inferno Epigraph Voice From The Flame (Figurative?) Language of epigraph Connect to lines 1-14, then entire poem

6. Lines 1-14 The text

8. “In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo” (13-14)