Understanding The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: A Study Guide to T. S. Eliot’s Themes, Imagery, and Modernist Style
Eliot wrote Prufrock during a period of personal and artistic transition, between 1910 and 1911, while he was a young man in his early twenties, studying in Paris and later at Harvard. The poem reflects the cultural and intellectual ferment of the early 20th century, a time marked by urbanization, the aftermath of industrialization, and the anxieties of modernity.