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TS Eliot The love song It is an examination of the pitiful outcast of a modern man--overeducated, well-spoken, irrational, and emotionally awkward. Prufrock, the poem's speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to "force the moment to its crisis" by somehow fixing their relationship. But Prufrock knows too much of life to "dare" an approach to the woman: In his mind he hears the comments others make about his …

…will ever experience and that is normally forbidden to humans but that exists in memory and in literature. Yet the garden is also a part of the ruined estate from which this poem takes its name; it endures the marks of human presence. The wreck of the garden brings to mind that ruins are a symbol of the hollowness of human goals and particularly of the ill hope of trying to alter the natural order.