The Love Song by Alfred Prufrok

My favorite part of this poem was the imagery used in the fourth stanza. Prufrok describes a yellow fog that is traveling through the streets and in many other places. What I think this yellow fog is is sunlight. The third line reads "Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening". In my head I picture this as dusk where it is not yet completely dark and there is still some sunlight. The yellow fog that "rubs its back upon the window-panes" is sunlight shining through the windows.

I think this is a very creative way of describing sunlight and I love the metaphoric relation to a yellow fog. By describing the sunlight this way the image in my mind of the poem is not that of simple daylight, but it is the air being filled with sun. It gives the reader a different perspective on sunlight itself. This along with many other metaphors and imagery in this poem make for a very beautiful and interesting read.