Forever Scorned

T.S Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' presents a man who has watched his life fade before his eyes. He has watched himself as he watched the countless possibilities presented in life curtail in response to his own indecision, inside of his head countless times; forever scorned by his own mind. The image presented is the cover of the Forever Scorned EP from It Dies Today; the effigy bound in a forgotten field is a perfect compliment to the poem.
The figure, reduced to shreds by time and the elements, is forced to stare eternally forward as the world passes it by. A dense fog permeates the area causing one to second guess even the most familiar of sights. Just as Prufrock could never be assertive, so are we left to not be sure of our interpretations of anything that surrounds the forgotten wraith. Just as Prufrock believes that one would only take a second glance at him from his sheer ghastliness and then talk of all his short comings, so are we almost forced to look into the empty eyes of that doll and talk of its decay.It's almost like Prufrock would have painted it himself, his own effigy.
Eliot paints a bleak picture of not just Prufrock's view of himself, but of how Prufrock views the world. He uses the yellow fog to convey Prufrock's own alienation from the world; everything outside of his house is a mystery and filled with countless ramifications and possibilities. Eliot then gives multiple examples of Prufrock's dissatisfaction with himself and also his maddening awareness of his self ostracising ways. The entire work is narrated by Prufrock as he recalls the opportunities he missed 'Till human voices wake us, and we drown'.
Eliot uses Prufrock as a symbol, an effigy, for all those who's introverted and overly analytical ways have resulted in them being alone. Alone and cursed to constantly replay past events to see what more could have been done, what more could have been said; yet so stunned by an opportunity that they let it slip by. He could also be used as a warning to not just the aforementioned recluses but to everyone; live life to the fullest because one day it will be too late and you'll spend the rest of your days haunted by what could have been.