THE LOVE SONG

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is one of T.S.
Eliot's first works. The technique consists in the use of the "stream of
consciousness" and the" free verse" because of the presence of a
 continual transition between
psychological thoughts.

Furthermore, the text isn't a love song because according to J. Alfred
Prufrock the love does not exist: he lives the crisis which characterized the
men who belong to the twentieth century, unable to face every change.

In addition the extract  begins with
the quotation " Let us go then, you and I" which symbolized the
travel's beginning and its aim: to arrive to a quest.  Moreover T. S. Eliot refers to an indefinite
person using the personal pronoun "you" which indicate the all human
being. There are also some metaphores: for example the evening is compared to a
patient who is lie-down on the table symbolizing the inability to act. However
the poet puts in contrast Michelangelo and J. Alfred Prufrock. The first figure
is vital and lively while on the other and there is J. A. Prufrock, immersed in
various problems regarding to the existence.

In the last part of the extract prevail over the
images certain the decadence and ageing: prufrock is making old and he has know
all that the life can give him. He renounces to do the ask which ( according to
the man ) will can change the universe, so he decides to surrender.