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What kind of language does T. S. Eliot use in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to describe the city, and how do

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When explaining what kind of language does, T. S. Eliot uses in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to describe the city and how these descriptions reflect modernist themes, one must first have the knowledge of what these modernist themes are. To sum up, what modernist themes are: modernist themes most commonly explore alienation, transformation, consumption, and the relativity of truth. Now that that is understood, we can say that the city’s description reflects modern themes in the sense that it often questions whether there is a meaning of life or not. It also creates a sense of isolation, which creates an environment of despair and loss, which is a characteristic of modernism. 

The paralysis theme is supported by an image in the first stanza of the poem: “Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table” Here in which the night sky of London is likened to a patient etherized on a table. This sense of being drugged and passive will follow Prufrock throughout the poem.