Compare Elliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with R. Frost's "The Road Not Taken."

These two poems make an interesting pair for comparison. In structure and form, they
are quite different; Eliot's Shakespearean allusions and internal rhyme make his poem a
modernist masterpiece that is, on the face of it, very different from Frost's
regularly-structured musing on the road "less traveled by." However, there is
certainly a point to be made about the similarities of theme between the two, with Prufrock's
eternal musings on the "decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse" standing
in contrast to Frost's speaker, who, ultimately, after looking down both possible paths,
"took the one less traveled by."

In both poems, the speakers muse
about how their decisions will be viewed in the future. Frost's speaker considers that, at some
future time, he will "be telling this with a sigh, / Somewhere ages and ages hence,"
perhaps wondering what would have happened if he had taken the other route. He is, after all,
"sorry I could not travel both." Eliot's Prufrock imagines...