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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock By T S Eliot!

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      I had a hankering for reading a premise around love, so was decoyed into this by the title “ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock “ .   T S Eliot dodged me by offering a fallacious title! :-D It doesn’t have to offer anything around love or romance. 😊   The prosaic name “J Alfred Prufrock”, suggested me some physics professor/scholar with an uninteresting name and a wearisome life, experiencing a lavish unusual love story/song!   But hold on, TS Eliot skilfully manoeuvred the readers into the intricacies and realities of life by offering a bewitching title! Neither is it a love story nor is the man a professor or a scholar . But yes, he is desolate, lonely, with truckload of complexes and bearing the tedium of the harsh raucous world! He just wants to break free from the humdrumness, but fails to do so! He isn’t articulate and resorts to self-mockery and lastly lamenting over his failed desires! It is a feat packed with irony! He...