What I See in Literature

One of the main themes in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is time. He talks about how he is growing old. He says, "Time to turn back and descend the stair, with a bald spot in the middle of my hair.". He wants to approach the women he loves but he begins to question himself. He worries about being rejected and doesn't have the nerves to talk to her. His chance of talking to her has passed and now he is just an old man. Time changes all throughout the poem, at the beginning he is a young man who is in love while at the end he is a lonely old man.