Where Is This Place We Are Taken?
In Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" the speaker Prufrock takes us to a place. Where is the place that Prufrock takes us? Prufrock takes us on a journey inside his mind. This journey passes through Prufrock's insecurities and his spiritual life. Prufrock begins this journey by telling us a passage from Dante's Inferno. The passage tells of a man that was in hell, and shares his story because he does not think that the one listening would ever go back to the world "because nobody ever escapes this pit" (Cervo 207). With no escape Pruf…
