In this ballad, Prufrock is addressing a unidentified male partner yet it likewise appears as though Prufrock is addressing himself as though in talk or an inside monolog. The epigraph is from Dante's Inferno. In this unique circumstance, a character in the Inferno recounts his story to the artist trusting that it will never be rehashed.
One of the most ambitious programs enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt Administration during the Great Depression was the Works Progress Administration. Created by an executive order from the President Roosevelt, the goal of the Works Progress Administration was to provide a paying job for any family whose primary wage-earner was unemployed. Most of the workers in the WPA employed were unskilled laborers who were hired for construction projects.
