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Wandering Around Salvation and Temptation 　　【Abstract】Prufrock in the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a split character with timidity and hesitation， who wanders around salvation and temptation. This paper tries to analyze his paradoxical psychology with the analysis of the poem. 　　【Key Worlds】Prufrock， salvation， temptation， psychology 　　“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a very famous poem written by the prominent American writer T. S. Eliot. This poem is a dramatic monologue of the main character J. Alfred Prufrock. Using his own eyes and ears， Prufrock depicts a picture of the society， which has already been corrupted and degraded. From his words， it can be seen very clearly that on the one hand， he wants to change the situation of the society， that is to say， he intends to save the dying world； on the other hand， he is also tempted by those women， by sexuality. When he thinks of the erotic society， he intends to use his voice to wake people. However， he denies it very soon， because he considers those women， and he also wants to flow with the main stream of society. In this way， Prufrock wanders and wanders around salvation and temptation without making decisions. This paper will analyze his paradoxical psychology in details. 　　The opening stanza of the poem is an epigraph from Dante抯 Inferno. This indicates that Prufrock finds an ideal listener who will never betray to the world the content of his present confession and it also implies the society that they are going to visitn is just like the hell. The word ?etherized?describes the general situation of the world. The first thing they see and hear is 搘omen”， who tempt Prufrock. Then he uses several images to describe the society： “the yellow fog”， “the yellow smoke”， “the pools”， “the soot”， “terrace” and “a sudden leap”. These sexual images show that the whole society is filled by the people’s sexual desire and sexual actions. The fog and smoke is like a cat fired by sexual desir