Prufrock Revisited

In the poem “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock”, Prufrock’s stream of thought seems to demonstrate that people are spiritually empty and contemporary life is unromantic and unheroic. However in my point of view, the poem seems to only demonstrate that Prufrock only think of himself as spiritually empty that he rather be a paired of lobster claws than a human being. As the poem shows, Prufrock seems to be worried about how people view him physically that he has thin arms and white hair. Although in the poem Prufrock didn’t explicitly tell us that he didn’t dare to do and want to do, through inference we can kind of tell that Prufrock seems to be in love with a woman and he is afraid to ask her out, which is the question he kept worry about in the poem. Prufrock worried to further move his relationship with the woman to a romance type of relationship because he is afraid that the woman might say that is not what she meant. In a way, I don’t think Prufrock thinks of contemporary life as unromantic and unheroic. He is just one low self-esteem man who is afraid to take action and can’t take rejections of the world.