In my opinion, the Poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot is about a man who can not get up the nerve to ask a woman out on a date. He just keeps coming up with different reasons not to do it. J. Alfred Prufrock enters a restaurant or coffee shop before work each day where he sees the woman with whom he is in love with. She is either a waitress or another woman who hangs out there everyday also. Mr. Prufrock sees himself getting older and older each day and thinks that she will not be interested in him when he gets older.
Mr. Prufrock imagines himself with this woman through lines like Let us go then, you and I' and through lines 62-68 he describes her arms, hair, perfume, and how she is wrapped up in a shaw. In lines 70 -74 Mr. Prufrock is wondering if she even notices him. He basically answers his question with a no when he states, I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas'. He so bad wants to ask this woman out but......
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