Today we began by studying “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot. Why do you think this poem is so difficult to understand?
Can you answer where the character is going? What is he describing?
Who is the “you and I” that the narrator addresses?
How does stream of consciousness play a role in this poem?
What is the passage from Dante’s “Inferno” expressing at the beginning of the poem?
Answer the questions above. Make sure that you especially know how and why this work fits into the category of dramatic monologue, an example of stream of consciousness, and modernist poetry.
Below is a video of the audio clip of T.S. Eliot reciting “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Mrs. Foster's American Literature Class 
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