Prufrock Analysis

When looking at T.S Elliot's modernistic poetry the theme  of indecision and its role on the speaker's psyche. A line that stands out "for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions,/Before the taking of a toast and tea" In essence Prufrock would be unable to go anywhere, however hard he tried. Open space has been implanted into his mind, and would be movement in the same place, like a man trapped in a dream. There is no way to distinguish between actual movement and imaginary movement. However far Prufrock goes, he remains restricted in his own mind, and all his experience seems imaginary. It seems to be some perception of this which keeps him in his mental state, content to imagine himself going through a limbo, aspiring to obtain a woman, and telling her "all," like Lazarus back from the dead. There is no resurrection from the death, and this is one meaning of the epigraph from Dante.