Comparing Prufrock's Song In The Room Women Come And Go

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the mind of Prufrock as he declares his exclusion from the mermaid’s song in the following lines. I have hear the mermaid singing each to each/ I don’t think that they sing to me (Prufrock,124/125).These lines can be best explained in the light of the repeated lines of the poem “In the room women come and go” in both cases Prufrock was not the subject of conversation of the title of the song by the mermaids. The images of the mermaid face of woman and a tail of fish. Whether the social gathering women or the mermaids none of them results in a good communication with Prufrock. Prufrock till the end of the poem complains about the women’s treatment to him, he is frustrated, delusional, isolated, alienated and imprisoned Prufrock; elimination from the ladies talks calls upon the doubts of the love song that would never love song.

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