Response to The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot

Above, I have displayed the link that should bring you to the poem.

So, I read this poem and I found it quite sweet because he seems to want to be telling this girl that he likes her, but he can't get it out. He's beating around the bush and talking about other stuff and can't simply say "I think really like you". There were a few parts that I didn't understand, though. For example "In the room the women come and go talking of michaelangelo" I didn't understand why this was there or what it has to do with love, it makes no sense.
Throughout the poem, Prufrock brings up different things and says "we'll talk about that later" and he and his crush are walking through London, he wants to show her all the best things of London (cheap hotels). He talks about a man who looks sharp but has long thin arms, drinking coffee and life-altering. He mentions at one point that he had to tell someone something life changing, but he didn't. Then we get to the end of the poem where he finally gets to the point and says what he's been wanting to say, but it's about talking to mermaids, how we once lived in the sea. But by the end of the poem, we die because we're under the sea but we didn't realise this until the poem finished.

For me, this poem is about unrequieted love and the inability to declare one's feelings for another, and Prufrock may be slightly socially inept or anxious because he simply can't get to the point.

Finally, there is a paragraph in italian which translates to:


If I believed that my reply were
A person who never returned to the world,
This flame without more staria shock.
But for they never have to this fund
I have not been any live, s'i'odo the truth,
Without fear of infamy I answer.

From this, I understand that it is saying you should tell someone how you feel about them before it's too late. I can't understand it very well, but that's what I understand.