... stave off aging. This indecisiveness creates a very bleak and semi-morbid image throughout the poem. Eliot's beginning and ending to this poem very strongly convey this, Prufrock's internal battle. The epigraph of the poem is a passage from Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy, more specifically the Inferno. The Inferno is Dante's journey through the rings of Hell in his search for enlightenment. Eliot ... , 46) Prufrock does not trust himself enough to venture to be with a woman because of the probability that it will sway his universe. Eliot brings the poem back to the epigraph in the ending...

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... is becomes more clear that Prufrocks hell is that he has nobody with whom he can share passion or love. His paper has become his passion and his lover. The epigraph of the poem is a passage from Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy, more specifically the Inferno. The Inferno is Dante's journey through the rings of Hell in his search for enlightenment. Eliot ... , 46) Prufrock does not trust himself enough to venture to be with a woman because of the probability that it will sway his universe. Eliot brings the poem back to the epigraph in the ending lines of the poem as Prufrock seemingly falls...

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... of J. Alfred Prufrock" The very first lines of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot are inspired by Dante's "Inferno". It is these first lines that are called the epigraph. In "Inferno, the lines are translated as: If I thought that my reply would be to one who would ever return to the world, this flame would stay without further movement ... ...

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