where did pruforck invite us to go?
Prufrock invites the reader to accompany him as he walks through a modern city making his social rounds.nobility and gentry is having a party. Some place he is surrounded by fine food and utensils as well as well-dressed women with perfume and flowing dresses. more further to ask himself a question, the question
Starange comparasion
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
The poem is comparing the quiet, sneaky, and athletic movement of the fog to a common housecat. It’s a pretty sweet image.
Prufrock’s
description of lonely scenes in the city
His focus on the filthy and the deserted indicates that
he is most likely physically alone.
compare to John
Prufrock spends much of the poem acting like the notoriously indecisive Hamlet
In the Bible, the prophet John the Baptist, who baptized Jesus, dies after the stepdaughter of a powerful king asks for his head on a platter.
he may just be feeling sorry for himself.
attitude to Prufrock
an internal dialogue- the quote from dante is something like, if i wre in the world of men i would not dare to answer you question, but as i am in hell i will say it there is some regretful pity to it I grow old . . . I grow old . . . It can be conjectured that Prufrock feels alone in his observations of lower class conditions and desires to point out to the party their lack of knowledge