Posted by Erin on October 21, 19101 at 15:02:00:

In Reply to: help with posted by erin on September 09, 19101 at 19:11:17:

This is such a beautiful poem.

My impression was that it's simply about a man growing old and feeling that life moves on around him without including him or even noting his presence; he wasting away.

I got the following synopsis from the link below. Here is a portion of it:
"[T. S. Eliot's] early poetry, including "Prufrock," deals with spiritually exhausted people who exist in the impersonal modern city. Prufrock is a representative character who cannot reconcile his thoughts and understanding with his feelings and will. The poem displays several levels of irony, the most important of which grows out of the vain, weak man's insights into his sterile life and his lack of will to change that life. The poem is replete with images of enervation and paralysis, such as the evening described as "etherized," immobile. Prufrock understands that he and his ociates lack authenticity. One part of himself would like to startle them out of their meaningless lives, but to accomplish this he would have to risk disturbing his "universe," being rejected. The latter part of the poem captures his sense defeat for failing to act courageously. Eliot helped to set the modernist fashion for blending references to the clics with the most sordid type of realism, then expressing the blend in majestic language which seems to mock the subject.

What makes this poem different from a normal love song?"

You can get a lot of pages with synopses like this if you type in " t. s. eliot "love song of j. alfred prufrock" " on the aol search engine.

I hope this helps.

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