In TS Eliot's "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" Prufrock is the speaker. He is trying to speak this poem, this love song, but he keeps interrupting himself. The tone of the poem is somber, but shifts as he goes off track and brings him back to the love song. The points where he says "In the room the women come and go/ Talking ofMichelangelo" is where he is realizing that he is going off topic and he is bringing himself back. The mood of the poem is serious as Prufrock begins to realize how pointless it is to question life. He says not to worry about answering life's questions because one is not able to change anything. He begins to speak directly to the audience. What happens to him in the poem also happens to the listener. He attempts to flow in one direction with is poem, but he continually goes off track to discuss other topics. Eliot uses diction to create the somber and serious tone. Prufrock asks, "Do I Dare disturb the universe?" The word dare shows that there may some sort of fear of attempting to change what is supposed to happen. Imagery is used through out the poem. Phrases such as "For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,/Rubbing its back upon the window-panes" paints a picture in the mind of the audience of a thick, murky cloud slipping over the streets and caressing the window- panes. In the statements about yellow gas, Eliot is alluding to the mustard gas that was used in WWII. The yellow smoke on the windowpanes also hides his feelings and emotions. The windowpanes symbolize his outlook on life that is being smothered by the events of the war. No nature is mentioned in the poem. Everything mentioned is mad- made. So the poem discusses man destroying mankind. Nature is not mentioned because nature always prevails over mall. There are numerous allusions in "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" The line "Though I have seen my head [grown slightly bald] brought in upon a platter" is an allusion to John the Bapti...