Journal on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The reading for today is the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot. This is a modernist poem that at times seems very confusing. The poem has tweo interpretations of it. One could potentially take it for its obvious mneaning and say this is a love poem in which the character of Prufrock merely wishes to talk to a woman amidst his insecurity and the judging eyes of others. One could also say that under that surface this is a poem about a man who feels that he is living a false life where he has conformed to the monotony of it all while deep down he wishes to break away from this and actually speak as he wants and debate some philosophical point or ask some overwhelming question to those around him.