Inferno Fever: "The Love Song 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 ... streets, to the hell that Montefelltro lives in. Prufrock feels lonely and alienated as if everyone treated him like a fly under a magnifying glass. When Montefelltro speaks to Dante, he speaks on the assumption that Dante will never make it back to share his story. In the p...

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... , overly intellectual, and utterly incapable of expressing himself to the outside world. He frequently mixes his life with his poems. The opening stanza in the poem is an epigraph from Dante's Inferno. An epigraph is a quotation set at the beginning of a literacy to suggest the theme of the poem. "The epigraph to this poem describes Profrock's ideal listener: one who is ... ...

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