How is the epigraph at the beginning of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" relevant to the meaning of the poem? Try in particular to...

The epigraph
at the beginning of s poem is relevant to the rest of the poem in various ways, including the
following:

• The epigraph comes from s
  Inferno, thus suggesting that the ensuing poem will depict a kind of dark,
  hellish experience.
• If we assume that the epigraph is by Prufrock himself
  (the speaker of the poem), then the epigraph implies Prufrocks learning, his depressed state of
  mind, and his tendency to describe his own situation in somewhat hyperbolic terms.


• If we assume that the epigraph is not by Prufrock but is Eliots...