Objective correlative in Eliot's "the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Abstract EN

This study aims at showing the importance of objective correlative in expressing emotion indirectly.

It is divided into an introduction and two other sections.

The introduction tackles the definition of this term and alludes to its origin.

The second section is devoted to the use of imagery as a medium for objective correlative.

Images are studied according to the emotion they evoke.

They are roughly classified as images of discontentment, images of alienation and loss which in their turn lead to animal images which express debasement.

In the last section the present study tackles symbols as further media for objective correlative.

It presents three important symbols which are closely related to Prufrock's problem concerning sex.

It also deals with other devices such as repetitions and allusions which are regarded as important media for objective correlative.