Had Prufrock sung the song he meant to sing, he would not be in hell.Yet it seems Prufrock had been planning to make his declaration.

Essentially, Prufrock has proved himself to be a coward. His inability to speak his feelings and the fear of what implications that would hold have confined him to where he is. Fittingly, PrufrockвЂ™s world is cast in this yellow light because his world is a world of cowardice. Yellow is a color associated with cowardice.

Images of yellow overwhelming the landscape abound: вЂњThe yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, the yellow smoke that rubs its back upon the window-panesвЂќ (15-16). He has been condemned to a kind of hell by his inaction.This hell is cast in a yellow light. Only now, where nobody can hear him, can Prufrock finally say what cannot be said. EliotвЂ™s Prufrock faces the same situation he has a story to tell вЂ“ a love song to sing вЂ“ that he didnвЂ™t have the courage to declare among the living. Translated, it reads: вЂњIf I thought that I was speaking/ to someone who would go back to the world,/ this flame would shake no more./ But since nobody has ever/ gone back alive from this place, if what I hear is true,/ I answer you without fear of infamy.вЂќ The speaker in this case will only tell his story with the knowledge that living ears will never hear it. Alfred PrufrockвЂќ begins with an epigraph from DanteвЂ™s Inferno.

So worth it song