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J Alfred Prufrock Allusions

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T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” tells the emotional struggles of a man who believes that he is incapable of love and affection due to his appearance. A man who has internal struggles that prevent him from living and loving to his full potential. The man fears his natural instinct to love and be loved by others. The narrator needs to stop comparing himself to other people and be who he really is rather than who society tells him to be. Eliot makes allusions to different pieces of art to support the narrator’s claim that he is not good enough and does not deserve love. Eliot begins his piece with significant stanza from Dante’s Inferno. It is in this canto that Dante hears the confessions of Count Guido da Montefeltro,
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