“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”~ T.S.Eliot Allusion
1. Epigraph 2. Michelangelo line 14, Lazarus line Prince Hamlet line An attendant Lord line Fool line Head on a silver platter line O Mermaids line 124 Task Research the following allusions from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” -determine… 1. What is the literal meaning of the allusion. What is the term or phrase referring to? 2. What is the purpose Eliot has in using this allusion?
MeaningPurpose 1. Epigraph --Dante’s Inferno, a condemned spirit in hell confesses his sins to Dante. 1. —There is to be a comparison drawn between Dante and Prufrock as well as between hell and Prufrock’s existence on earth now