- poem illustrates the stages of his life, what he has accomplished, what he wished to accomplish, and what he hopes to accomplish some time in the future
- compares himself to Hamlet because of their indecisiveness but clearly states that he is not him because Hamlet actually carried out the actions he planned for so long
- the yellow smoke/fog resembles something in a sick state and sets us up for his frame of mind
- the part mentioning the women speaking of Michelangelo serve as fillers to show the differences in the social gap and how something as extraordinary as Michelangelo is used in such a short, informal fashion
- Prufrock is hesitant to speak to those ladies as he never actually approaches them in the poem and complains how he doesn't think that the mermaids will sing to him at the end (he has horrible luck with the ladies)
- I found it a bit ironic that Michelangelo was referenced in this poem because his most famous sculpture "David" is extremely masculine and encapsulates everything that a man should physically be and essentially everything that Prufrock is not
- He masks his first name in the title of the poem with a single letter to show that he is ashamed of himself and constantly wants to hide from everything that he is not
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