The song starts with an epigraph from Dantes inferno

The song starts with an epigraph from Dantes inferno

The song starts with an epigraph from Dantes inferno. He tells a story of the knowledge that Prufrock faces in the same song in the same situation (Leveson M.1983). He thus shows it as a story through a love song that he did not dare to declare among the living. Prufrock’s world is cast in cowardice and cannot speak out his feeling and the fear of what implications that would confine him to where he is.

The image of Prufrock is pinned and wriggling on the wall creating a picture of him being exposed( Leveson M.1983). On his display, he seems vulnerable to critics of his peers .he then acts with fear of being exposed and thus declares his feeling of the love of a woman that ultimately overwhelms him to the question of love (Leveson M.1983). This question keeps him from acting and making fear of what could have happened. He thus asks of the impossible of what could have happened that he imagines the declaration of love .this makes him run the risks of loving a woman and not being loved in return.

He caries this attitude in the poem that Prufrock experiences great difficulty with the sexuality of women( Leveson M.1983). He manifests his inability to reconcile his relationships with women with their sexuality through the significant problem he experiences while talking with women in bed.

Reference

LEVESON, M. (1983). “THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK” AS A CUBIST POEM. English Studies In Africa, 26(2), 129-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398308690805