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 …showed first 75 words of 876 total…

…showed last 75 words of 876 total…with the utter meaninglessness of his own life. Works Cited Cervo, Nathan A. "Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Explicator 60(2002): 207-09. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. GALILEO. 22 April 2004 Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Literature and the Writing Process. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X. Day. Robert Funk. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice 2002. 524-527 Hindus, Milton. "On the Question of Prufrock." Modern Age 43 (2001): 279-84 Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. GALILEO. 22 April 2004