The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Why is "The Love Song of Prufrock" called an Interior-Dramatic Monologue?
Give reasons and prove that it is a interior-dramatic monologue. Explain details.
Give reasons and prove that it is a interior-dramatic monologue. Explain details.
"Basically it's a monologue where Elliot's speaker ruminates on his insecurities with women, his life choices, and general questions about life. He wonders if he did the right thing on specific occasions and muses about opportunities taken and missed,
βAnd time yet for a hundred indecisions, / And for a hundred visions and revisions, / Before the taking of toast and tea.β
Landscapes become a metaphor for his feelings and introspection spans themes in his life. That's basically the stuff of an Interior-Dramatic Monologue.
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