J Alfred Prufrock Annotation

At summation of his love song, several wearing cycles having passed, Prufrock very nearly ceases to waver in his contemplation. In place of the poem's prior up and down rhythm, one can sense an idle calm, appearing irregularly out of the turmoil which is the man's consciousness. So the look into the mind of J. Alfred Prufrock comes to an end as he contemplates, "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each . . .I do not think that they will sing to me." The passionate reader could almost hear along with these words and those few following them, the man's subsequent resignation, and surrender to haplessness.