Alfred Prufrock

The poem is based on a white, wealthy, bald, and insecure middle-aged man. His life is uneventful, dull, and unexcitable and lives a depressing life. He has become frustrated because he can’t make decisions because of the fear he has of becoming a failure. He has let his own opportunities get in his own way and he is scared to take risk in his life, he is afraid to talk to women and this has caused him to be lonely. He does the same routine day after day because of the insecurities that he has. He has tried to make changes in his life, but he has failed at that as well because of his fear and this keeps him from moving forward. As the author roams the streets you see the theme loneliness appear when he said “The Muttering retreats

He often sees them “In the room the women come and go” (Alfred Prufrock) P. 901. But his self-esteem stops him from approaching them because of the fear of being rejected. This suggest that transience and shallowness of contemporary relationships while it will reduce the work of an Italian renaissance master. “Prufrock’s failure engages sympathy for him as a human being who must live with a residual sense of inadequacy” (http://www.enotes.com/topics/love-song/themes). The overall story is dark and gloomy the theme pessimism is shown a lot the author is afraid of getting lost in the streets, because of the fear of being bullied or even by them threating him “The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes, (Alfred Prufrock) P. 901 and afraid to approach women he sees the interactions with other people especially women as something terrible because he doesn’t feel like he looks good enough. He embodies WWI by showing the lack of men at the time you see this from the way he talks about women “coming and going” (Alfred Prufrock) P. 901. He is not a hero because he is not a soldier which is why he may feel inadequate about his life. This causes him shame because he did not become a solider like the other men and be the hero like many