The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Summary & Analysis
by T. S. Eliot

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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was first published by British poet T. S. Eliot in 1915; Eliot later included it as the title poem in his landmark 1917 collection Prufrock and Other Observations. The poem is a dramatic monologue whose brooding speaker relays the anxieties and preoccupations of his inner life, as well as his romantic hesitations and regrets. It is considered one of the defining works of modernism, a literary movement that saw writers experimenting with form and digging into the alienation, isolation, and confusion of life at the turn of the 20th century.

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