The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

What is the significance of the epigraph to The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?

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Many believe that this is a way that the poet took to set the tone for the poem. The epigraph, itself, is from Dante's Inferno. It would seem to suggest that the poem will be about bad people attempting to pretend that they are good.