An Analysis of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

In T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the author is establishing the problems the narrator is having with his coming of age. The narrator believes that age is a sort of burden and he is deeply troubled by it. This preoccupation with the passing of time characterizes his fear of aging, and this poem deals with that fear. The poem also deals with the narrator's fear of no longer being able …

…expressing his love because of the fear of being rejected. Elliot's depiction of the worries of aging is a major aspect incorporated into the poem. Although Prufrock is a man of knowledge and society, he feels that he is a misfit because he is getting older. Age kills us all, but for Prufrock it has already killed him, because he was terrified of the inevitable which in turn caused him to worry his life away