J. Alfred Prufrock was a bald, middle-aged man who was unsure of his ability to converse with women. However, he implicitly danced with dishonesty and lived in an attitude of ignorance ironically caused by his lack of self-confidence. Similarly, T.S. Eliot appears to have a monologue with himself and Prufrock that includes similar sentiments about Prufrock's character. For example, in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Eliot reveals his personal insecurities about writing modern public poetry in lines such as “There will be time, there will be time/to prepare a face to meet the faces that meetings;” (27-28) and “Do I dare/disturb the universe?” (45-46). These lines enhance the reader's understanding that Eliot ponders whether he should allow his poem to be made public; telling himself that he has time and more time to place his writings into the universe of new literature to be judged by critics as Prufrock thought he would be criticized by women who admired men in great positions. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was ostensibly written about Prufrock's insecurity about women, but the lines containing a double meaning can be applied to both the main character and the author to indicate that Eliot actually refers to his own anxieties about being an unsuccessful modernist poet whose voice could go unheard. The opening lines of the prose introduce Eliot's tone to the reader through the included line three to illustrate, as stated in line forty-nine, his omniscient attitude by saying, "For I have known them all already, I knew them all—". Instead, he presents the his uncertainty in himself by finishing the same stanza with which he begins: "For I have known them all before, I have known them all..." (49) presenting... in the center of the sheet... .Eliot, Thomas S. " Tradition and Individual Talent". Poet.org. Academy of American Poets, nd Web. 18 March 2014. John, Waterfield. The Heart of His Mystery: Shakespeare and the Catholic Faith in England under Elizabeth and James. Bloomington, IN: IUniverse. com, 2009. Print.Michael North, The Political Aesthetics of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.Mitchell, Roger. A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Jack Elliott Myers and David Wojahn : Southern Illinois UP, 1991. Modern American Poetry. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Network. March 5, 2014. Spender, Stephen, and J.H. Miller. “General Statements on Eliot.” General Statements on Eliot. Np, nd Web. March 19. 2014. .