The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is not a poem about love, at least in any traditional sense. Rather it is a collection of the fragmented thoughts of a hyperconscious man. Far from being about love, it is about one man's inability to love (himself or the world around him.) It is the cynical statement of a man who does not believe good things will ever happen to him, or that the world has anything to offer him. His own life is devoid of love, so in his bitterness he brands his work a "love song".
The Poem begins with an invitation from Prufrock to follow him through his self-examinatio…
