The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

I find this poem interesting and something that many men go through. He finds his life not worthwhile, that he does the same thing day in and day out. There is no variety in his life. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." This shows he has planned his life and measured out every last second. He seems to be at a social gathering by the lines "In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo." He is timid and afraid to talk to them, thinking he is not good enough for him. He feels they will judge him on his own shortcomings. Prufrock then starts to analyze if he should talk to this woman at the party. "Do I dare?" He says he has a bald spot, his necktie rich and modest but asserted by a simple pen" He thinks they will say "how his arm and legs are thin" He believes here there will be other times to talk to women and once he makes a decision he reverses it. He has seen the looks the women are given him before and describes it by being a pinned insect on display. " I have known the arms already know them all"...He has seen these type of women before, they have no substance. He doesn't like that he is thinking about them and chalks it up to the smell of their perfume. The last part I thought interesting was that last few stanzas of the poem. Prufrock realizes that he is growing older. "I have heard mermaids singing.." This most likely is an allusion to the Odyssey and the sirens. Here though, they are not singing to him.