"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was written
by T. S. Eliot in 1910. This was before
Eliot was struck upon by misfortune.
This poem is about a man who is forever questioning if he should do
something or not. He want to be brave
and step out and live his life, but he needs but one silly excuse to sit in his
own little world and pass the time. He
feels that he has all the time he needs left to do the things he never
does. The poem goes on with the
questions of what to do in life. Starting
at line 120, Eliot changes to the time of being old. He is still questioning what he should do
down to what to eat and how to part his hair, but the indecisive man mentions
having heard mermaids singing, but they don't sing to him. He is becoming a bit delusional and the last
line suggests that the man finally dies, "Till human voices wake us, and
we drown." (131). It's a sad poem
that is more focused on the internal conflicts that arose in this man quite
literally every moment of his life.
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