In this article I propose a reading of Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in the light of its intertextual relations with two works in particular: Dante’s Comedy and Homer’s Odyssey. Moreover, I take the structural positions of these references as fundamental to understand the very meaning of the poem’s voice, that is to say, Prufrock as a poetic I. Finally, from a Lacanian perspective on Prufrock’s desires, I posit the interpretation of this intertextual relation with Dante and Homer as the result of a double-faced archetype, shaped by Eliot’s idea of simultaneity which, according to his poetics, affects all literary paradigms.…
