The modern man in The Love Song of J. Alfred by TS Eliot Prufrock The poetry of Thomas Stearns Eliot has had a great influence in revealing to man his true identity during the last fifty years. For Eliot, modern man is no longer the best creature ever created by God. He is neither a supreme being in anything. Nor is he the most omniscient, determined and sociable creature one could think of. How this modern man is represented in his poetry is a question that would take time and meticulous effort to answer. However, some characteristics of man are more evident in his poetry: man suffers an impoverishment of emotional vitality. He lives by the rules of empty social conventions and a decadent culture. Man's life is partly sordid and sensual. To some extent he is aware of his isolation and his lack of feet. He feels trapped in a corrupt, decadent and ugly society. All these characteristics, however, could be classified into three main groups. Each group, in turn, would exhibit a series of related problems that would constitute an entire entity. The duplicity of Man, the lack of communication between Men and the isolation of Man are three fundamental situations of Man, which make him increasingly alienated. Although these motifs are common to Eliot's poetry, the writer here tries to trace them in his "Love Song" (The Waste Land and Other Poems 12). The sense of duplicity in modern man is one of the main motifs in Eliot's "The Love Song". by J. Alfred Prufrock” (12). In this poem the hero, Prufrock, is helplessly trapped in an interminable conflict between his desire to live on his own and his obligation to submit to social conventions. Eric Sigg in his book, The American TS Eliot,...... half of the paper...... WW Norton and Company, Inc., 2000. · Gordon, Lyndall. The Wasteland and the Other Poems, London: Faber and Faber, 1940. · Harrison, GB Leading British Writers New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 1957. · Kenner, Hugh. The Invisible Poet: TS Eliot. London: Mathuen and Co., Ltd, 1985. · Lawerence, Karen, Seifter, Besty and Ratner, Lois. The McGraw-Hill Guide to English Literature. 2 vol. 4, USA: McGraw – Hill, Inc., 1985.2:321. Scofield, Martin. TS Eliot: The Poems. London Faber and Faber, 1994. · Sigg, Eric. The American TS Eliot. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. · Sullivan, Sheila. Reading in literary criticism: critics on TS Eliot. New Delhi: George Allen and Unwin Publishers, 1995. · Traversi, Derek. TS Eliot: The Longest Poems. New York: Harcourt Brance Jovanovich, 1976.