Alfred Prufrock”. This poem was published in June 1915 in the “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse” with the help of his close friend Ezra. The epigraph of the poem is a quotation from Dante Alighieri´s Divine Comedy, from the first of the three canticas, Inferno. The reason for that is Eliot´s obsession and extensive reading of Dante at that time. Eliot´s poetry, including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is the combination of past and modern time. The