t the shore of this beach has done the same thing at other beaches around the world throughout time so that the ancient Greeks heard it just as Arnold does on this particular occasion. At the same time, something has changed because on a metaphorical level the Sea of Faith that once sustained humankind no longer does, leaving human beings battling one another without a belief system to guide them.
E. Prufrock: Prufrock is the title character in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." He is a man who has never made his mark on the world and who is now getting older and feeling his mortality more strongly. The name J. Alfred Prufrock is meant to be prosaic and tedious like the man himself, and the reference to this as a love song is ironic in that this is a man who has not known love.
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