The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Eliot uses imagery to express his depressing view on life. He uses 'big' imagery of simplistic ideas to make up his look on how life has, essentially, no purpose. Line 51, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" demonstrates how Eliot questions life and how little trivial things are the reason for his existence. By exemplifying coffee spoons to measure his life, suggests that his life amounts to nearly nothing.