And “pay our visit” indicates that he is going to social occasions. All these settings and details in the second stanza do not seem to make any sense individually, but overall they effectively convey the narrator's depression and loneliness towards his boring surroundings. Furthermore, in the next stanza, the speaker of the poem says, “the room where women come and go. Talking about Michelangelo.” In this plot, the poem's narrator simply touches upon the communications between upper-class women. However, when one compares his preference for upper-middle-class women trying to present themselves as culture-loving with the aforementioned slums, a strong contrast invisibly forms. Similarly, in the fourth stanza, the speaker of the poem states, “The yellow fog that rubs its back on the window panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its snout on the window panes,” the setting here indicates the extreme emotions empty and boring when dusk comes. In conclusion, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a love song without love. It is more like the realism of ordinary people living in the oppressive and depressing modern industrialized world
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