Analysis

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is not a love song at all. If you go on reading there is nothing emotional but rather an idea of physical love, not generating new life. The main idea is sterility. Right from the title you can see that Prufrock is a name made up by pruf and
rock. Rock reminds of something that cannot change, absence of regeneration. The poem begins with a quotation by Dante's Inferno. The speaker is Guido da Montefeltro, whose spirit Dante encounters during his descent into Hell. Since Guido assumes that Dante is also dead and therefore cannot return to the world, he is willing to confide in Dante his sin of false counsel, for which he is punished by being encased in flame. There is a sort of revelation. Eliot adopts the dramatic monologue to tell the story where there is something who is speaking but the reader cannot interview. In this poem is Prufrock who is telling the story. He is the symbol of anti-hero unable to make a decision, a perfect example of a modernist man. At first looking at the text, all the poem has not a regularity stanzas so the reader can interpreted it as a form to represented reality which is fragmentary. The syntax is also broken both in meaning and form.  In addition, in the first paragraph there is a universal question which is "what is it?". Or sentences like " let us go then" more times repeated  in the text. Indeed, in all the poem there are a lot of repetitions to better underline the fat that the narrator takes time, there is no need to hurry to make your decisions. Furthermore it helps to create a sort of continuity because Eliot wants to shock the reader. There is also a quotation from Hamlet with his "to be or not to be".

The description of J. Alfred Prufrock is made up with an image of an old man, not at all able to live. He is not an image of hero. He knows everything, he has a lot of experiences. He is afraid, he represents a character afraid of doing something.