Prufrock__A_Journey_Into_The_Mind_Of_A_Wasted_Life

Prufrock: A Journey Into The Mind Of A Wasted Life “Prufrock”: A Journey Into the Mind of a Wasted Life “ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a poem which has nothing to do with love. The title is actually ironic considering the grim content the poem embraces. It is a collection of thoughts the speaker has as he sits in a bar, looking over the past years of his life. The speaker is an old man who is unable to love anything, including himself. He is extremely insecure, especially in the company of women. He’s also very indecisive, and has cynical views of the world that surrounds him. The epigraph at the beginning of the poem is a quote from Dante’s “Inferno.” This immediately gives the reader a sense of the damnation, in which Prufrock feels he has lived. One might assume from the epigraph that Prufrock is in his own living hell, and he feels it won’t make any difference if he tells his story, since he will forever remain in the “gulf.” Prufrock seems to be addressing the reader as if he were talking directly to him/her, where in actuality he is really speaking internally to himself. When prufrock, life, women, society, one, poem, very, prufrock’s, out, love, memories, himself, fog, peach, page, feels, dying, void, room, reader, question, people, mind, might, makes, make, left, led, insecurity, insecurities, indecisiveness, he’s, hamlet, eat, decisions