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