The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock By T. S. Eliot

TS Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is anything but a love song. He uses a few examples of zeitgeist modernism and makes it seem as if there is no hope for love. The second stanza of the poem symbolizes a lonely state, something far from romance. The disturbing walk he suggests, expresses his possible opinion of love. While each is a bit unsettling, he uses several metaphors of the ocean. I assume Eliot is in a building, he used rooms to symbolize being left out of situations.
Just after Eliot inserts an Italian piece from Dante’s Inferno, Eliot describes a walk that he would like to take with, I assume, a woman. He wants to take the person to numerous number of places that love would not be found and little romance is in the air.

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” From my understanding, Eliot would rather be a crab in the ocean floor where it is acceptable to be alone. The last paragraph of the poem brings about another symbol of the ocean. I imagine the last description of the ocean to be rejection for Eliot. He at first pictures the women as sea like majestic creatures. He seems as if he has tried many times to go into the sea or be involved with women but it may be a circle of recurring failure in which he states, we all drown.
The author repeats the same two lines throughout the poem, “In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo” Eliot may be explaining what goes on between the woman near him. He may not be able to relate to. He seems to hear the voice of someone he loves but the voice is later drowning out with music in lines 52-54. This may be the woman he loves speaking to another person until it is then drowned out with music. He is indecisive if he should pursue her before doubting