The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – Ali Zandani

“Do i dare

Disturb the universe?

In a minute there is time

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse”(lines 45-48).

In this passage, it clearly shows that Prufrock seems to be hesitant to say something important to the women he loves and keeps asking himself “ do i dare”. Prufrock is talking about how in a minute every decision we made can change( reversed). Instead, there is a lot of time in our hands to just not make any decisions because if we did, those decisions can change in a minute. Prufrock seems to be insecure about himself when he described himself as bald and thin in previous lines whic why I believe that Prufrock used “time” as an excuse to hide his weak side which is his looks. Prufrock kept telling himself that there’s plenty of time to make a decision to go talk to the women he loves and kept delaying which is in reality if we to say we have plenty of time not to make any decisions, death will come and still we haven’t made a single decision. I chose this passage because it mentions an important theme of the poem which is time. while i was reading the poem, “there is time” and “ do I dare?” Seemed to have a lot of reputation which caught  my attention. Also, as a reader i was eager to know  about the important things that Prufrock said he will talk about in this poem, but he kept saying “there will be time” . In addition, the last line in this passage explains why he was resistant to not make any decisions and it’s the line that i had difficulty understanding because it has a literally meaning that is understood based on the events you know that occur since the beginning of the poem and of course everyone has their own understanding of this line.

REFERENCES

https://poemanalysis.com/t-s-eliot/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock/

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-The-Love-Song-of-J-Alfred-Prufrock-by-TS-Eliot