One Man, One Love Song

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Throughtout reading this poem there was a great sense of self consciousness and fear of being judged by others.There some great metaphors including one describing a cat walking around a house. At first I thought it was a dog protecting the house then I realized that it was a cat with the lines "The yellow fog that rubs its back on window panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window panes." The color yellow can be associated wiht cats because many cats eyes are yellow in color. Also a cat will normally rub against someone or somehting when it wants attention. After this line I realized thios was also a metaphor for the person who wrote the poem. He wants to have attention, but is afraid of what 'they' might think of him.