A.J. Prufrock is the character in which is expressing the love song that had been created by T.S. Elliot in1911. Now looking at the title, "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock" one can only imagine that Elliot is trying to lead his audience in a certain direction with this. Now with the term "love" in it I believe many readers will just assume that Prufrock is then speaking of a woman. In the eyes of many well respected literary critic's as well as mine, this love is not of a "boy-girl" love but is rather a love in which a man in searching for love of his own life.
Through the searching he asks many questions and doubts himself in every aspect possible. Prufrock is an aging man who in modern language is facing a "mid-life crisis" and is noticing the negative effects of getting old and with this, takes time to question many things; such as life, his future and his past as well as the setting in which he lives which is becoming over polluted which creates a gloom over the city.
To conclude this masterpiece of Elliot, it is obvious that this is a work of great excellence as it still debated today. This is made possible by Elliot's way of writing which leaves a lot of questions unanswered which makes the reader fill in the blanks for themselves. T.S. Eliot in fact, stated that he purposely created this poem with as much obscurity as possible.