Introduction : The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock + As I Walked Out One Evening

Both "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "As I Walked Out One Evening" revolve around the essence of time and it's effect on the human condition especially revolving around love. However, one is written from the position of the lover, and the other from the position of an observer of love. Both poems question times affect on feelings and emotions. And also how the movement and passing of time can affect the endurance of emotions and how it can create changes whether one may chose to believe it or not. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "As I Walked Out One Evening" are two poems vested in time but received from two completely different standpoints.