understand`fully'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

It was really rewarding to go into the depth of a single poem .I realized that poems like this presume a very wide and indepth reading from the reader.I also learnt that the real meaning of a poem is known only when you delve deep;only then it gives you the sheer joy by its beauty and depth.

Prufrock’s refrain “And indeed there will be time” (23, 37) is an allusion to Metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” (“Had we but world enough, and time” [1]), in which the speaker urges his lady to speed up their courtship. As with most of Eliot’s allusions in “Prufrock,” the Marvell reference is ironic. Rather than hurrying his lady, Prufrock makes excuses for himself

Prufrock is descending into his own Hell, and he brings the reader along with him for safety. Fittingly, Prufrock switches from his first-person singular narration to first-person plural in the last stanza: “We have lingered in the chambers of the sea / By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake us, and we drown” (129-131). For his final plunge, Prufrock wants to make sure that we, his Dantesque listener, accompany him into his self-pitying Hell.
(From Gradesaver)

From Gradesaver:
Eliot parodically updates Hamlet’s paralysis to the modern world in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Parodically, because Prufrock’s paralysis is not over murder and the state of a corrupt kingdom, but whether he should “dare to eat a peach” (122) in front of high-society women

famously maintained in his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” that the “progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

I have gone through this:
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/prufrock/about.html

1.The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2.Prufrock Pervigilium
3.A comment on Till human voices awake us
to a friend on her request .She promised to read and discuss.

Yesterday this poem inspired me to do sth positive.I have to see how this poem is producing a positive inspiration.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown

‘Till human voices wake us, and we drown.’ This Australian film’s title comes from TS Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ which the heroine of the film loves to read