Eliot was impressed with Charles Baudelaire’s technical mastery and particularly with his employment of symbolic imagery as a means of representing a spiritual or emotional state of modern man. This paper makes it clear that Baudelaire’s decadent metropolitan settings appear in Eliot’s early poetry including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” This paper argues that Eliot not merely presents the imagery of the sordid common life of a metropolis but attempts to transform such imagery to disclose the symbolic landscape in the protagonist’s mind. Eliot recalls from his past life memory and daily observations concrete physical equivalents for intangible feelings of modern humans. This paper shows how all the scenery of the poem, indoor and outdoor, is transferred to the psychological landscape of Prufrock himself. And this paper also argues that the symbolist device of objective correlative, then, in Eliot’s hands, renders the complexity of modern human experience as well.

1. 엘리엇과 상징주의
 2. 프루프록의 내면의식과 객관적 상관물
 3. 나가며
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