Time

Time is a theme in this poem mentioned over and over again. In the fourth stanza time is mentioned seven times. Eliot says, "time yet for a hundred indecisions,/ and for a hundred visions and revisions". He's so obsessed with time, yet it seems as though he wastes it. "And in short, I was afraid/ and would it have been worth it after all". He never takes action, therefore; Prufrock is left in a constant state of contemplation of time. He goes through his days and they're quite boring actually. To me, the poem comes across as that he is going about day to day things too scared to act when he says things like "do I dare", but he never does he says because he's too afraid. It's a poem of regret maybe, as he is aging. I get this idea from when he talks about going bald. Still not sure how mermaids fit into this.

(If this looks weird I had to type it on my phone)

I commented on Caleb's post.