The poem was written by T.S.Elliot in 1917 and belongs to the collection Prufrock and Other Observation.
 Analyzing the title emerges Elliot's intention to use innovative techniques in writing poetry: The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock isn't a traditional title, it's specific, the author adds also the second name of Mr Prufrock. His surname, Prufrock, seems to be the union of two words: pruf, whose sound seems like proof's sound, and rock, something solid and firm, so the reader can understand that Mr Prufrock is a man that has problems with changes.
 The poem starts with an epigraph taken from La Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri where Guido Da Montefeltro in the XXVII canto of Hell reveals his fault because he knows that information will never leave the hell. This epigraph introduce the poem subject: the paralysis of humans, J.A.Prufrock will never tell his love to the lady because he is afraid of consequences.
In the first stanza Mr Prufrock speaks with his consciousness, as modernist style wants. There's a contrast between the first verse "let us go then you and I", the last verse "let us go and make our visit" and the rest of the stanza. The first and the last verse are warm-hearted, the rest of the stanza presents sad images like loneliness and tedium, a negative vision of life repetitive and routine, a vision of his life.
The stanzas are separated by the refrain "In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo." The refrain symbolized the vulgarity of Elliot's time, he does not accept that people of low social, prostitutes, talk about important subject as Michelangelo.
 In the second stanza Elliot describes the October fog using cat movements. The setting is external and Mr Prufrock is afraid of it, he prefers to be at home where he feels protected. Mr Prufrock can't express his love but he needs love, he feels powerless and weak.
 The third stanza starts with the verse "and indeed there will be time", it analyzes the concept of time: Mr Prufrock is undecided, he postpone the moment of choice, he does constant revisions of his future acts. Mr Prufrock is unable to do also simple things like take a cup of tea with his beloved. This stanza is connected with the epigraph because is repeated the concept of fear of exposing himself.
 After the second refrain, the same as before, the fourth stanza starts again with the verse "And indeed there will be time” to underline that Mr Prufrock postpone the moment of choice. He is afraid of judgement and asks himself if he can dare, he repeats two times “do I dare”, he asks if he will dare to disturb the universe. Mr Prufrock attributes big consequences to a little action in a little moment.

In the fifth stanza the paralysis of Mr Prufrock is connected to past experiences: he has known the anguishes of the life yet so to risk it would be vain.

In the sixth stanza Mr Prufrock says that he has walked observing other men like him. He wants him to be different, he wants to act "I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
In the seventh stanza he asks his consciousness again if he must reveal his love or not, if change or not. He continues to postpone the moment with some rituals, he doesn't feel brave enough to change because some past negative experiences have maid him afraid even if he's old. In this stanza Mr Prufrock admit his fears but he's speaking only with his consciousness.
In the eighth stanza he reveals the fear of being disappointed after the change. He thinks the change is a miracle so express his love in the hell isn't enough, he wants to tell it to the lady, but it's late. He is alive but thinks like a dead, he is dead because he doesn't choose.
 In the ninth stanza Elliot make a parallel between Mr Prufrock and Amleth they're opposite. While Hamlet acts, disturbs the universe, Mr Prufrock doesn't di anything, he is almost useless. In his description Mr Prufrock uses terms generally positive but here they have a negative conception.
 In the last stanza Mr Pruftock understands that he hasn't time and he is not better than other, he makes a list of habits common to all and understands that he is alone. He as spent too much time thinking about love without live it. At the end he understant it and leave the hope.