Man, Love, and Women Speaking of Michelangelo "Poetry is of course not to be defined by its uses...It may effect revolutions in sensibility such as are periodically needed; may help to break up the conventional modes of perception and valuation which are perpetually forming, and make people see the world afresh, or some new part of it. It may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings …showed first 75 words of 3150 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3150 total…d feelings of what and who Eliot is. It is the most conceivable source for him. He has successfully conveyed this to the reader. He makes it clear that he is Prufrock and that simply, we are Prufrock. Eliot poses in this piece, whether or not we decide to enact upon the same kind of cynically questioning existence that Prufrock has. Eliot explains where he went wrong and where we can learn from his mistakes.