The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

(T.S. Eliot

I. Quick write – 2 minutes• Write about a time when you were in a

social situation in which you felt uncomfortable or out of place. Include what was going on in your mind when you were in the situation. Do you remember any of the conversations going on around you?

• Discussion• The setting of this poem is a party and the

speaker of the poem is uncertain about what he should say or do.

II. Roaring Twenties Notes• Emphasis on partying, getting rich

quickly, and abandoning social mores.• There is a part of society that is

disillusioned with America, politics, and the current lifestyle.

• This is when T.S. Eliot wrote this poem.

Open your textbooks to page 715

III. Vocabulary & Literary Elements• Insidious• Digress• Malingers• Meticulous• Obtuse• Allusion – A reference to a well-known

person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

Read the poem• Answer questions following

your reading. • CP – You will complete an essay that

summarizes your reading of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” for your poetry notebook. The summary will be the answers to your questions, typed.

Example of essay – Divide the essay paragraphs by stanzas.

In the poem, “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” the evening is compared with _____________________. The speaker, Prufrock, says that he would like to take his companion to __________________. Prufrock could be talking to ___________________.

Some details that we are given about the setting are ________________. The fog is compared to a _______________. I would paraphrase line 27 by saying, ______________________.