The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot: Analyzing Spiritual Emptiness and Social Alienation as Themes of Modern Anxiety

Abstract

This study is particularly limited to the study of one significant subject in Eliot's The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock because he is one of the most important poets of the 20^th century. The study deals with the theme of modern anxiety as a psychological conflict that is divided into two main themes: spiritual emptiness and social alienation. Spiritual emptiness is a theme in literature that explores a sense of inner void, lack of meaning, or disconnection from higher values, faith, or purpose or the human is hollow in life  while Social alienation is a recurring theme that explores the ways individuals feel isolated, disconnected, or estranged from society, other people, or even themselves. Those people feel secluded from the others for many reasons such as a comfort, weakness and others  It also shows the poet's poetic style which is distinguished by difficulty and obscurity, symbolism, allusions, images, fragmentation, dramatic monologue and objective correlative and others. It is divided into four sections, each analyzing a topic.