Imagine "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Reading T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" brings many images to mind. His poem is rich with descriptions that create emotions, a sense of setting and descriptions that reveal the character J. Alfred Prufrock who dares to disturb the universe to step out and ask a question. Although the poem is abstract, he makes some references which create images of an aging man in pursuit of life and love, although he doesn't seem quite sure how to go about it and seems to wonder if it is too late. The poem's use of fragmentation and allusions to other works such as Dante's Inferno are similar to techniques used in his poem "The Wasteland," although the references were more recent works. His stream of consciousness was also similar, yet the transitions were more evident and his poem seemed more modern in its technique. He seems to be evolving, yet not quite solving the riddle, but answering the question with his own questions of a man's place in the universe.

I couldn't help wondering how others might imagine the protagonist Prufrock, so I looked online and found some interesting artwork with images of him:









There will be time "for revisions and decisions which a minute will reverse."