1. Time is the keeper of dwelling. It keeps stating that there is time, bit contradicts it with all the things there "is" time for, which is just added responsibility. Time keeps the regret and the voice in your head saying do something. Time is the constant reminder to not do something or of all the reasons to not perform or act. It is the birth and death of someone. As literal time passes as you read the poem, the progression of the poem is down tunring. It starts out confident but as it continues to speak the words turn into a fantasy that the character doesn't want to wake up from. Time makes the character despise his life and love the fantasy he creates. In the end time is the thing that kills him
2. the allusion to Hamlet is saying that Prufrock is no prince. He doesn't have the royalty that Hamlet does or the crisis that he does. Hamlet was fortunate to choose between killing people and getting away with it whereas Prufrock is condemned by his social status and himself. He listens to others rather than Hamlet who makes his own life and calls the shots. He is not the main scene but something just in the background. The significance of the eternal footman is death or god. Some entity that makes him afraid of what it is. It could be himself and his future because he sees his present and how destroyed it is and that foreshadows his future to where he is afraid to live it. Prufrock sounds like he doesn't have a nice life and so he wastes it away and that might be the footman who takes his coat because he is just wasting away and doesn't know what to do to stop it.
3. When he describes the yellow fog. The yellow gives the idea of sickness but as he explains it, it reminds me of a dog. How the fog is always there and comforts him in a way. The unconditional love that protects him that he longs for but doesn't know is there. He takes advantage of it and its hidden from it.
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