Short Note on the Title

Ostensibly, the title seems to be a typical love story, but actually, it is a sarcastic story of Prufrock's mental doubts regarding love. The title ironically shows the speaker's cowardly nature in making a love proposal to his ladylove. The speaker, Prufrock, is a middle-aged bald man who pretends to be a fashionable modern man. He loves women but dares not to propose to them for his indecisiveness. He is the true portrait of a modern man from urban society. The title analyses the disconnect between Prufrock's desire for love and his inability to express it conventionally and romantically. It indicates his search for love's ironic and unfulfilled nature, as the poem is far from a traditional love song. Besides, this is not just any love song but the interior monologue of the speaker, J. Alfred Prufrock. Overall, the title highlights the poem's central themes of al