... swims with the mermaids out to sea and drowns, passively accepting the death of his long sought triumph by sinking into a somber, dispassionate existence. Eliot begins the poem with an epigraph from Dante's Inferno suggesting that Prufrock speaks only because he is sure no one will listen and what has or has not been done will remain in that state. The ... a realm imperforable to Prufrock. The imagery of "a patient etherized upon a table"(3) and "half-deserted streets"(4) paints a somber picture, implying a dark soulless setting, adding to the seclusion set forth by the epigraph. "Stree...

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... 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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... the author or Prufrock's feelings or perspective. These allusions provide the readers with good comparisons and enrich the understanding of the poem's contents. The epigraph of the poem is one example of such an allusion. In his epigraph Elliot introduces a literary allusion from Dante's poem "Inferno."" In this allusion a man condemned to hell states his feelings. He states that because he is ... ...

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... 131 Till human voices wake us, and we drown. NOTES Other poems by T. S. Eliot ... The poet's life and works ... Composition Date: February 1910 - July/August 1911. Form: irregularly rhyming. 1. The epigraph comes from the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy (XXVII, 61-66). Count Guido da Montefeltro, embodied in a flame, replies to Dante's question about his identity as one condemned for giving ... ...

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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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