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Imagery in Prufrock Eliot's earliest masterpiece The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock was published in "Poetry" magazine in 1915. Written as an interior monologue, the poem is an examination of the soul of a timid man paralyzed by indecision; It's an imagist poem written in free verse and uses images to convey ideas. The images of the opening lines depict a drab lonely neighborhood of cheap hotels and restaurants where Prufrock lives in solitary gloom. The images of the city are sterile and deathly, The evening sky looks "Like a patient etherized upon a table", while down below barren "half deserted streets" reveal "one night cheap hotels/And sawdust restaurants and "streets that follow like a tedious argument". Pru8frock's imagery progresses from the general to the specific and tellingly from the elevated to the low. We go from general look of the skyline to the streets, to a cheap hotel to sawdust...

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