In T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, he describes the inner feelings and fears that a man has concerning being misunderstood by those around him, especially the women, when he tries to express his true feelings and thoughts. Through allusion, synecdoche, and repetition, he supports a message that feelings of insignificance and the fear of being misunderstood can be crippling and detrimental to our perception of our own individual worth. Overall, the tone of the poem is bleak, unsettled, and insecure, and is therefore reflective of the narrator’s inner feelings. Throughout the poem, Eliot makes use of several allusions as a means of furthering the reader’s understanding of how the narrator views himself. In the fifteenth
