All this time I've found this poem incomprehensible. Now I get it.... he was just an incel before social media. Simple, really.

A good word for describing the persona would be that of a "flaneur." A flaneur was basically a 'street walker'; someone always detached and isolated from everyone else and used to observing life from the outside. Prufrock is quite attuned to modern life that goes outside him, but is paralysed within himself

I always think of this poem as expressing the pain and isolation of being an extremely self-conscious person.

No man reading the poem would think the urban landscape was anything other than a backdrop. This is about him feeling excessively self conscious/inferior (despite his best efforts) and hence nervous with women. When/if to take the plunge and propose, only to be told "that's not what I meant at all". What on earth else are the overwhelming questions? He describes the many rituals he has to go through to even get to that point.

Simple explanation, thank you from Iraq ✨

I graduated with an english degree 50 years ago.  I studied Chaucer, Spenser, Skakespeare and Milton mostly but I liked the update.

Wish I had these materials when I was studying.

Boggles my mind how you do this... I've been doing rhetorical analysis (starkly different from poetry analysis, yes) for four years and JUST recently obtained a decent grasp on it. How you analyze so fluently and effortlessly is awe-inspiring and encouraging, and done so thoroughly as well! Awesome video.

THANK YOU!

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Thank you so much this is very insightful!

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Thank you so much for this video, the speaker summarized every important detail by giving many examples. İt was very helpful for me. Thanks again!

Hi, great video, I especially liked your point about Eliot borrowing a "persona" from the symbolist movement. I'm curious as to which other symbolist poets portrayed similar archetypes?

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Plz can you help me to talk about disappointment 🥺

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