Analysis Of The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock And Richard...

Analysis of â€Å"The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock† and â€Å"Richard Cory† â€Å"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock† by T.S. Eliot is a poem unlike any I have ever read before. The poem starts off with the speaker taking what seems to be a potential lover along for a walk. The speaker first describes their surroundings and says that â€Å"the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table† and that â€Å"the streets follow like a tedious argument†. The sky is described as someone who has been anesthetized, someone who can’t feel anything. The streets are like an argument, something that can tear two people apart. The similes used make the setting seem dark and dreary. The speaker then brings up that he has a question he wishes to†¦show more content†¦He was like the sky; he couldn’t feel anything because he was too anxious. He was afraid the streets were following him and that when he asked his question things wouldn’t go well with him and his potential lover. He came off as very insecure with all of his stalling. He was so down on himself that he even believed his question could â€Å"disturb the universe† and thought that his potential lover would take his question the wrong way. The poem was centered on the insecurities of man and the inability to act. The speaker was a coward and made excuses so he wouldn’t have to ask the question he so wanted to ask. Everything seemed to make him anxious and his anxiety stopped him from getting what he really wanted. The poem â€Å"Richard Cory† by Edwin Arlington Robinson is the exact opposite â€Å"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock†. It is a brief poem that uses very simple vocabulary. The poem is a description of the man Richard Cory. Plenty of imagery is used to describe just what type of man Richard Cory was. The speaker of the poem seems to be a collective we. The speaker is all the people who saw and knew Richard Cory. The speaker of the poem recounts that Richard Cory was a â€Å"gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored, and imperially slim† and that he was â€Å"richer than a king†. The words â€Å"crown†, â€Å"imperially†, and â€Å"king† hints that people viewed Richard Cory as a man of high status and royalty. Even though he was a man who was unlike any other, â€Å"he was always human when