Throughout the poem the speaker feels the urge to ask an overwhelming question. Although the speaker never reveals the question, he does indicate that it is an overwhelming question. It is a type of question that would “disturb the universe”, meaning that the content of the situation is extremely important and contains heavy content-- whether about death, love, the purpose of the human existence, Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Nevertheless, the importance of his question, he did not say it causing to degrade his input in the world, making his extinct, his footprint minimal. Prufrock restrains from asking the question because he is afraid of being misunderstood, to express his deepest thoughts and be given an astray look,
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Prufrock views woman as unattainable in his world thus they belong to another. Prufrock knows that the woman will no “longer sing to me” since he believes he is unheroic due to his lack of confidence.The last stanza, Prufrock enters a dreamlike trance correlating to Carl Jung’s ideology about the unconsciousness. The inner psyche reveals the truths people can’t express while they are awake. Dreams connect to the heroine’s inner thoughts and desires. The sea signifies an unearthly realm, a subterranean unconsciousness for Prufrock, he is floating numb in the depths of his own mind. The presence of water also suggests the first stages of human life, the nine months spent in the womb, floating in a calm dark abyss. Up until humans are born, they are considered to be pure and sinful but once they are conjoined into the earthly world they are blinded by reality. Eliot creates a double entendre in stating “Til human voices wake us, and we drown.” (Eliot line 135) relating to the birth of all human beings and the reawakening from the uncousicouncess mind, once human’s are awaken from the world they have created in their dreams and must face the vulnerability of making relationships in the real word.
Prufrock remains imprisoned in the “Refusal to the Call” stage because he lack of confidence, his fear of not being understood succumbs his urge to being heard.
Prufrock views woman as unattainable in his world thus they belong to another. Prufrock knows that the woman will no “longer sing to me” since he believes he is unheroic due to his lack of confidence.The last stanza, Prufrock enters a dreamlike trance correlating to Carl Jung’s ideology about the unconsciousness. The inner psyche reveals the truths people can’t express while they are awake. Dreams connect to the heroine’s inner thoughts and desires. The sea signifies an unearthly realm, a subterranean unconsciousness for Prufrock, he is floating numb in the depths of his own mind. The presence of water also suggests the first stages of human life, the nine months spent in the womb, floating in a calm dark abyss. Up until humans are born, they are considered to be pure and sinful but once they are conjoined into the earthly world they are blinded by reality. Eliot creates a double entendre in stating “Til human voices wake us, and we drown.” (Eliot line 135) relating to the birth of all human beings and the reawakening from the uncousicouncess mind, once human’s are awaken from the world they have created in their dreams and must face the vulnerability of making relationships in the real word.
Prufrock remains imprisoned in the “Refusal to the Call” stage because he lack of confidence, his fear of not being understood succumbs his urge to being heard.