Alfred J. Prufrock

In my opinion, the Poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot is about a man who can not get up the nerve to ask a woman out on a date. He just keeps coming up with different reasons not to do it. J. Alfred Prufrock enters a restaurant or coffee shop before work each day where he sees the woman with whom he is in love with. She is either a waitress or another woman who hangs out there everyday also. Mr. Prufrock sees himself getting older and older each day and thinks that she will not be interested in him when he gets older.

Mr. Prufrock imagines himself with this woman through lines like ‘Let us go then, you and I’ and through lines 62-68 he describes her arms, hair, perfume, and how she is wrapped up in a shaw. In lines 70 -74 Mr. Prufrock is wondering if she even notices him. He basically answers his question with a no when he states, ‘I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas’. He so bad wants to ask this woman out but can not seem to find the right time. He asks, “Do I dare, do I dare?”

Mr. Prufrock is obviously in a restaurant coffee shop because he states that he has measured out his life in coffee spoons. It is probably a high class restaurant because he says that woman come and go talking of Michelangelo. I believe he is there in the morning before work because he says, “My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, my necktie rich and modest.” Most people would not be dressed like that on a regular day.

Mr. Prufrock believes that he has plenty of time to ask this woman out because he constantly tells himself, ‘There will be time, there will be time’. He marks the end of the day with yellow