Unsung:The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

In TS Eliot's "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" Prufrock is the speaker. He is trying to speak this poem, this love song, but he keeps interrupting himself. The tone of the poem is somber, but shifts as he goes off track and brings him back to the love song. The points where he says "In the room the women come and go/ Talking ofMichelangelo" is where he is realizing that he is going …

…does not want that to be his life. Eliot uses an allusion to Hamlet to help describe Prufrock’s indecisive nature. The title, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is almost an ironic title, because the poem ends up not to be about love at all, but about a brothel(Of Restless nights in one –night cheap hotels/ And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells”) and a man discovering how incredibly sad life can become.