How does T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" exemplify Modernism?

This poem presents the
story of a man and his
terrible fear of rejection, his fear of being judged by others, and his

ultimate choice to live alone rather than make himself vulnerable in love (it is, after
all, a
"love song"). Prufrock's horrible feeling of alienation from everyone
around him and
his sense of being unable to construct a real and lasting
connection with anyone help to situate
this poem within the Modernist
tradition. At the party to which he takes the woman for whom he
cares, he
says that "the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo." In other words,

no one talks about anything personal or truly meaningful; they only talk about things
that will
make them seem intelligent or cultured. No one forges real
connection; people are only concerned
with appearances (another Modernist
move). He imagines what the watchers are saying about him,
talking about how
thin his hair is getting, how thin his arms and legs are. He imagines that he

is an insect, "pinned and wriggling on...