Exploring Alienation in “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song”

The Role of Alienation in Modernist Poetry

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Introduction

“The Love Song” poem by Alfred Prufrock is majorly concerned with the character who can see the life’s potential. That is the possible joys, loves, heroism and companionship but is not able to act on his desires. The poem of Love Song resonates on the personas the hesitancy, the inadequacy in which creates scenarios and then justify inaction. The poem can be described a personal poem of a tormented and sad man reciting his love song for everyone to hear. The persona also wants someone to understand and see his plight. Similarly, on another level of the poem criticizes the modern society, a place where people get alienated, repressed and are no longer in contact with an existence that is meaningful, a place where there is prevalence of social rituals. The…