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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Summary & Study Guide Description
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Poem Summary
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Lines 1-6:
This epigraph is taken from Dante's Divine Comedy. It reads: "If I thought my answer were to one who could ever return to the world, this flame would move no more; but since no one has ever returned alive from this depth, if what I hear be true, without fear of infamy I answer you." The words are spoken by a lost soul, damned to Hell for the attempt to buy absolution in advance of committing a crime. This correlates with Prufrock's need to know the answer to the question he wants to ask as a condition of asking it. Or perhaps in order for Prufrock to be able to ask the question he would have to not care what the answer would be; in that case, the answer wouldn't matter.
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Prufrock, the persona of the poem, issues his invitation to an unspecified "you" to go with him to...
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