LOVE SONG OF JOHN ALFRED PRUFROCK
The poem is a dramatic monologue because the poet adopts a speaking voice that is the life that the protagonist of the poem perceives will be also remembered in private experience. The title explains the main points. The structure of the poem has the aim to make feel the reader the sense of dramatic. The poem doesn't follow any pattern and only displays his revolutionary aspects.
The main protagonist of the poem, John Alfred Prufrock, is a technical device used by Eliot to create a dramatic person and also make some revolutionary aspects in the conceptions of poetry
In the poem Eliot creates a personal intimal dialogue with his character; he wants also to make feel the relation between the reader and the speaking voice, that is referred to Prufrock. John is an anti-hero because he is a man trying to make a balance of his life; he is afraid and he cannot manage and process his feelings. This is one of the most peculiar Modernist aspects of this character but also of Eliot. The main character is not more the heroic and definite person but he is now a unsure person, unable to finds his way. Even the surname of the character, Prufrock, reminds to "rock", a word probably referring to the immobility of the character.

THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
The dramatic monologue is a technique born in Victorian Age and first adopted by Alfred Tennyson(that is the same name of Prufrock) and Robert Browning. This technique was inspired by Shakespeare's monologues but Modernism adopted dramatic persona and took distance from envolment. Now they use monologue to express some sort of confession of emotional outbursts. So this technique is suitable to rend tragedy of nature of people's consciousness: their fears, weaknesses and most of all their unability to choose. In this way monologue can also express our inability to change the world and our fear of unknown: this is another reference to Shakespeare's drama, Hamlet, where the protagonist defines how fear make stop our actions. We are not able to see anything, we have not any perception and we are rolling in deep, this the conclusion expressed by Modernism.