Breaking away from Victorian diction, T.S. Eliot presents the distinct realities of his time in the stream of consciousness by experimenting with poetic form.
Eliot was an American citizen, and 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' presents American and European concerns of its times. It was published in the American magazine 'Poetry', founded by American literary critic, editor, patron of arts, and poet Harriet Monroe. The poem is part of Eliot's 'Boston Verse,' which critiques the upper classes, deriving its name from an American upper class called Boston Brahmins.
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,