After reading “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. From reader’s point of view, we sensed that he is well-educated by choosing of the word and the style of modernism and romanticism he adapted in the poem.

“Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.”(3)
”Street that follow like a tedious argument or insidious intent”(9)

In the excerpt from the poem, he uses the metaphor as “like a patient etherized upon a table”, from the syntax and choosing of the word. We can tell he is a scientific person who adapt provocative and logical thinking between his sentences. However, he is not happy with his life. He is not confidence with physical appearance from hair to body figure. And the self-consciousness of his appearance has made him feel awkward that carried on in the end of every paragraph in the poem.

“Do I dare Disturb the universe?”(46)
”Is it perfume from a dress that makes me so digress?
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin?”(69)

In the other hand, under his sophisticated and well-manner suit. He has delicate and sensitive heart by telling reader the environment with an ironic pessimism. He constantly asked himself questions and that reveals the anxious when it comes to topic of relationship.

What is Alfred Prufrock trying to say about social constructs and how he feels about them?

How does Alfred Prufrock use vivid imagery to convey his ironic views (Lazarus rising, … like a patient etherized upon a table)?

What do the striking images that Alfred Prufrock use indicate about Alfred Prufrock or the writer?