摘要
'THE LOVE OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK' 'THE LOVE SONG OF O.ALFRED PRUFROCK',one of the earlier poems that brought T.S. Eliot fame,is a voice from hell. In thispoem,the poet expressed his dissatisfaction with life, its dullness, its monotony its repetition and its decadence. The title itself captures the reader. It is a love song; but the name Prufrock is prosaic, awkward, with hints of prim ness or effeminacy, and with its suggestion of modern American business in the initial and first name form. The epigraph(from Dante's lnferno ⅩⅩⅤⅤ-ⅠⅠ,61-6)suggests that prufrockis in a kind of hell and that he is addressing some one who is there too; but his hell is the modern life. He might be revealing to his fellow sufferer----the reader----his secrecy and inner-most confli-
