The love song of Prufrock is a dramatic monologue.

A dramatic monologue is an archetype of Hamlet’s monologue. In a dramatic monologue speaking voice, that is Prufrock’s voice, is different from poet’s voice (T. S. Eliot) and the dramatic monologue introduces a speaking voice more objective.

Prufrock, in his monologue, speaks with his consiousness, not with an other character.

There are no values, that are refered with Medieval world’s references, because in that period religious code was the most important, while today there is only consumerism. Person is like a patient, afected by an illness.  

value = know the importance of something

There is a consiousness and it wants delete problems à consciousness deleted by a narcotic.

T. S. Eliot knows that man is pull-up and that man is impotent, so he can’t generate others human beings.

In addition in this monologue there is the metaphor of travel, of walk.

The function of dramatic monologue is the same of a magnifying glass and it is a tool to enter in subjectivity.

In addition there are two different worlds:

- reader’s world

- poet’s world. The poet takes distance from the I, who consumed romantic poetry.

Emotional distance is necessary to produce dramatic monologue and it has got a protective function.