S’io credessi che mia rispota fosse A persona che tornasse al monde, Questa fiama staria senza piu scosse. Ma per cio che giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero, Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo. Not only does the paragraph listed above appear in Dante’s Inferno but also in T.S. Elliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Translated from Italian the snippet means, “If …showed first 75 words of 969 total…

…showed last 75 words of 969 total…age because he found nothing but unhappiness in the present modern times. T.S. Eliot used Prufrock to exemplify the battle between the impersonal modern world and the world in which Prufrock resided in his mind. The poem ended with “...Till human voices wake us, and we drown” (2046). Deep down inside us all there resides a little bit of Prufrock, who secretly believes that love, and poetry can conquer the destructive, unfriendly forces of today.