T.S. Eliot is one of my personal favorites when it comes to poetry, especially among those involving imagery and impressionism. His work inspired one of my favorite musicals, Cats. In The Love Song of I, Alfred Prufrock, Eliot uses imagery to describe what I believe is the streets of London late in the evening. I believe that Eliot had a thing for cats as this poem, as well as others I've read, involves the description of normal, commonplace things, such as fog, in as way that makes you think of a cat. In the poem we read by him, there are images of fog described as such:
"The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,/ The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,/ licked its tongue into the corners of the evening".
There are also parts that say the fog did things such as, "Curled once around the house, and fell asleep". As the owner of a cat myself, I can quite accurately conclude that these descriptions all depict a creature of a feline nature. With this in mind, one might wonder why Eliot decided to describe fog in such a manner. However, then the poem goes on to talk about time and the progression of it and how easily it gets away from us. The poem is filled with many questions that seem to be about whether or not people should do things since there is too little time to do everything.... or at least that is what I understood from reading it. It is a very confusing poem.
Elizabeth Gagné
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