T.S Elliot’s ’the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock

In T.S Elliot’s ’the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ he brings out the reality between humans and their interaction with worldly endeavors.  He finds that Hope brings conflict and so is hopelessness, this is the conscious reality about life that people undergo in a bid to justify their ego and raise their self-esteem. In the poem, “the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” The narrator is keen on giving personal feelings as opposed to general perceptions that the public may not be honest about themselves. He finds that what he talks about is a key to being impersonal and is the only way he finds life on earth and his desire to connect with life after death is full of hope to satisfy worldly desires. Despite the fact that humans believe from the religious perspectives of life after death, humans are unconvinced not to live fully a fulfilling life for a better life which is unknown, this sparks fears and discontentment in our life’s when we realize that age is consuming us and the future becomes more uncertain (Halpern 56).

In real life, the author is sexually mindful of the world around him and in despair for a lover he acquits a fairy-tale to how would be love affair with a mermaid. He is however pessimistic that however he has heard mermaids sing that they would not sing to him. He believes that out of his senses he will hear the human voices that will wake him up to the reality when he will drown. He portrays the human attributes to fantasize in order to forget our worries and only a time will come when reality will shine against us and in the end it’s always bitter.
The author is inadequate about his making decisions and finds less joy in real life, his imagination of a better life only lies in virtual life which he can only imagine in life after death, he constantly talks of return to life after death. He questions his decisions all the time, an attribute that humans have whenever they find their journeys unfulfilling despite numerous efforts. Since some decisions do not work to our own interests, humans will always imagine of another life which does not really exist (Kaushal 76). In life every decision that we make counts to life and it’s unfortunate that as humans we cannot change the past but influence the future though (Llija Trojanow 43).
Prufrock is timid to make decisions and as such he is always in fear to take action. He is always mindful of rejection and lack of approval by people around him who may ridicule his actions and make him inferior (Elliots 27). In a desire to improve our lives, humans come under tough dilemmas to set forth goals towards their own success or towards impressing those around them. In the end it’s evident that such decisions fail and he finds no joy in the life he has been living. He visualizes of a town where he walks in loneliness, he finds that this does not make sense in his life. He compares it to an alienated individual who needs to die because of loneliness. A keen look at life will usually make people leave their real world when satisfaction lacks (Kaushal 33). The loneliness is a sign of rejection when he finds no joy in the worldly affairs and when the people around you don’t make sense any more. It’s the period that Prufrock measures his life with a coffee spoon and finds that all the voices are dying with a dying fall.
In life we all fall to situations of pessimism, the author  is a pessimist who finds no joy in earthly pleasures, feels inadequate and is keen to explore another world that he is convinced barely exists. He is keen to note that despite weeping, prayer and fasting, there is always a moment of greatness flicker but he is afraid, he finally convinces himself that it won’t work and falls short of hope.
Dishonor is an attribute that makes people shun speaking of their world, Prufrock presents his feelings without infamy and feels impersonal comparing his life on earth as that from hell, an impersonal city with smoking skies (Elliots 35). He asks to go in the evening spread across the city through the half-deserted streets. This depicts lifelessness as though he is in the world by mistakes and lacks the peace of mind. Adjustment to his feelings will only raise his guilt and fear that he rather lives this unforgiving life. He finds no place and lacks fulfillment when women at a social gathering discuss painting masters and Michelangelo the great renaissance artist. He finds Michelangelo so much recognized in art history and wonders how these ladies are interested in him also. It’s this attribute that humans doubt their conscience and doubt their guts to achieve their goals. In forgetfulness there is guilt when reality shines to an individual in the missed opportunity. Prufrock is a loner in that he finds comfort only within his own. He confines himself whenever he imagines of his life and acts timid becoming a brunt of ridicule. For humans have humans attributes, they will act within their human ways to discuss people and their achievements (Halpern 83) (Llija Trojanow 33).
In disillusion the writer acclaims that time is too much that he will have much time to do everything in life. After he claims that there is ample time to do things and to think what to do, he settles in the idea that there will be time to meet women too. Prufrock justifies his line of thought to uphold his self-esteem. Despite the fact that he is aging and balding, his clothes not presentable too, thinning arms, legs and hair, he is optimistic that time will one day come when he will approach a woman. He fails to account for that time for fear that he may never achieve that and hopes for the future to take toll in his life. Disillusionment makes the writer see the world as disinteresting since he finds people he met long ago are uninteresting as they were today. He finds that they even sound the same. He thus desires to pursue another world where he hopes things might be different. He doubts his intuition to love a woman only to be deceived by perfumes and jewelry when in real sense the same woman lacks substance. Prufrock fails to understand that it’s happening in his world and he thus have to accept the reality than live in fantasy. The imagination of sacrificing to have a dessert with a woman when he concludes that the woman might reject him (Elliots 41). He falls short of hope he finds it meaningless to do so.
Humans have a life to live; despite the work and daily encounters that really define our life we will usually be in self-justification to be content with our overall journey. The mind is always conscious and outside our limits we will always query ourselves to justify our actions.






References
Elliots, T. S. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. New York: Ameron Publishers, 1930.
Halpern, Daniel. Something Shining: new poems. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.
Kaushal, Radhey Shyam. the science of philosophy: theory of fundamental processes in human behaviour and experiences. new delhi: D.K Printworld, 2011.
Llija Trojanow, Philip Boehm. The lamentations of Zeno. new york: Brooklyn Verso, 2016.