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Kim, Jung Kyu. “A Study of the Other: T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -Focused on Gilles Deleuze’s theory-.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 45-62. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Eliot has defined his position by describing the world from which he is isolated and alienated. In this poetry, Prufrock attempts to convey his feelings but he partially loses his grasp on those feelings, for they are inexpressible. These feelings, so intense and indefinable, lead to the overwhelming question which is equally difficult to express. Prufrock’s inner self is hidden from the others by his own fears and social conventions, because timidity conquers the suppressed self. This awful separation cannot be one from the first to the last. Deleuze suggests that his work grounds a new conception of the Other–the Other as expression of a possible world, as a structure that precedes any subsequent dialectical mediation, including the master-slave dialectic of social relations. I have found, therefore, this poetry holds the key to a new understanding of the Other. (Chung-Ang University)