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‘The Love Song Of J. Alfred. Prufrock’ by T.S Eliot and ‘My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
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Poetry Analysis Assignment Introduction I will be analysing the poems `The Love Song Of J. Alfred. Prufrock' by T.S Eliot and `My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. Both poems are dramatic monologues led by powerful narrators. T.S Eliot develops the views of Prufrock, Browning the Duke. This particular form of narrative invites us the readers to really get into the minds of the characters and explore their personalities. As they lead us through the poems Prufrock and the Duke bare their fears, weaknesses and desires to us the readers. The major techniques through which the poems are presented are remarkably similar. `The Love Song Of J.Alfred.Prufrock' is, then, a dramatic monologue. The reader is invited by Prufrock to enter his mysterious world of seduction in the opening paragraph. Prufrock leads the reader into the dodgy, seedy, dilapidated area of the inner city by night, `when the evening is spread...
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