At the beginning of Eliot's poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", there is an epigraph from Dante's Inferno, Canto 27. This shows deep imagery and a better understanding of Eliot's poem. Not only does Dante represent the antithesis of Prufrock, but he also represents the ideal person that Prufrock hopes to be. Through Prufrock's words and conditions, Guido da Montefeltro represents his state of isolation and wastefulness. With these connections, this helps the reader better understand Prufrock's internal feelings. Dante represents the heroics ideal that Prufrock strives for and fails to become. Prufrock has a speech prepared that he agonizes over throughtout the poem, saying, "Do I dare? and Do I dare? / ...Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" He says this with no confidence and convinces himself that he has plenty of time to say his line. Then he goes on to think about how he should begin his line, or if he should.