The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

Topic:In this assignment, you will demonstrate your close reading abilities by writing a paper that interprets Eliot’s poem. Your interpretation will be supported by evidence derived from the poem itself, and it will focus on one literary element in order to explain the overall poem. This element may be (but is not limited to): tone, narrative voice, diction, point of view, symbols, similes and metaphors, allusions, irony, and rhyme and meter.

This list is meant only to illustrate the range of literary tools at your disposal for this paper. Any attempt to include all the items on this list in a paper would be foolish.

Readings: from Backpack Literature

T.S. Eliot          “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”              603
Supplemental readings from scholarly literary sources will also be used.

Topic:        In this assignment, you will demonstrate your close reading abilities by writing a paper that interprets Eliot’s poem. Your interpretation will be supported by evidence derived from the poem itself, and it will focus on one literary element in order to explain the overall poem.  This element may be (but is not limited to): tone, narrative voice, diction, point of view, symbols, similes and metaphors, allusions, irony, and rhyme and meter.

IMPORTANT: This list is meant only to illustrate the range of literary tools at your disposal for this paper.  Any attempt to include all the items on this list in a paper would be foolish.

You will need to use quotes and paraphrasing extensively in this paper, so you will need to use the correct MLA format for citation and the works cited page.  You should supplement your argument with one or two outside sources (research) to help you in your task, but if you do, the research should come from a scholarly source of literary criticism like the library databases.

Writing Task:
Write an essay that explicates Eliot’s poem.
You should use demonstrate a good knowledge of the literary elements in the poem by showing how these elements convey the largermeaning (or main themes) of the poem.

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