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In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot uses allusions as well as imagery to develop his theme that life is too short to allow fear’s hesitation to stop us from living true to dreams of happiness because we will all be judged in the ....

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.... his life. He tells his story only because he believes no one will hear it. By alluding to Dante’s “Inferno”, Eliot has accomplished two things. The first was to set the tortured and torn tone of Prufrock’s mind as well as the poem. The second was to hint at the theme; live true to ones self because we will not return to this earth. Eliot chooses to portray Prufrock as having a fragile self-image. He does not feel that he deserves a lover. His self-image is show in lines 41 and 45 when he imagines that the women are remarking about how bald and thin he is. Lines 55 and 56 shown that he is being judged. “I have known the e ....