... The consequence of Guidos sin would be eternal damnation. While the question given to Guido is a clear choice, the one given to Prufrock isnt as clear. Prufrock is also faced with a tough decision, but differs from Guido in his failure to decide. He is plagued by a hundred indecisions and ... with a clear choice, between helping Boniface and not helping Boniface, between sin and virtue, and hence damnation and salvation, while the question confronting Prufrock is never spelled out, and its source never clearly identified. The poem, rather, focuses on Prufrocks inability, in the absence ...

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... , more specifically the Inferno. The Inferno is Dante's journey through the rings of Hell in his search for enlightenment. Eliot uses this theme to support Prufrock's feelings that he is stuck in his own personal hell. Another similarity between the two works is the descending theme. In the Inferno, Dante travels ... further and further down through the rings of hell on his way up to the heavens. In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Eliot starts his description at the skyline slowly works his down to a finale in the sea. The first ten lines of the poem are the ... 5) "one-night cheap...

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... 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 uses this theme to support Prufrock's feelings that he is stuck in his own personal hell. Another similarity between the two works is the descending theme. In the Inferno, ... one-night cheap hotels"...

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