TONE: The author’s implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author’s style. Tone may be characterized as serious or ironic, sad or happy, private or public, angry or affectionate, bitter or nostalgic, or any other attitudes and feelings that human beings experience. See also style.
For your blog entry reread "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and reflect on how the imagery backs up your interpretation of the poem. Choose one or two specific images and explain how they back up your thesis. Other things you should look at and/or consider: Motifs and Allusions. How motifs and allusions back up the Eliot's attitude towards Prufrock or the other "people" or society in the work?
Eliot, in "Tradition and Individual Talent", argued that a poet must embody "the whole literature of Europe from Homer" to the present. His work fused past literary with his own.
The humorist Garrison Keillor once stated that Prufrock "killed off the pleasure of poetry for millions of people who got dragged through it in high school."
Here are some links for Prufrock:
http://www.usak.ca/english/prufrock/prustart.htm
This site has a hypertext for the allusions in the poem. You should review these allusions and see if understanding them increases your understanding of the poem. Eliot believed in referencing other writers - "The best poets steal".
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/prufrock.htm
Some critical views of the poem. These are interesting for both what they say and how they say it.
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