How is modern man depicted in eliots the love song of j.alfred prufrock?
It is worth remembering that the poem first appeared in the middle of World War I, and is dedicated to a close friend of Eliot’s who died in the Dardanelles. The contrast between the meaningless brutality of the trenches, and the equally meaningless social conventions of daily life at the cocktail parties and soirées of London (Eliot managed to avoid any direct involvement in the war) would have been very apparent to the first readers of this poem.
