The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock talks of a man's sexual and social difficulties and his inability to act upon what he wants, which in this case is women. Eliot is quick to point out the decaying phisical features of his character: "His arms and legs are thin" (44) and "his hair is growing thin." (41) The man in the poem wants to talk to the women but he does not "after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment into crisis," (79-80) or to talk to a woman. The man's intimidation of women continues in that they are "mermaids singing, each to each, I do not think that they will sing to me," (124-125) a clear sign that the man shows a lack of confidence towards the opposite sex.
Im not sure that this poem would work for Sir Philip Sidney. The poem is full of dark simbolism in nature and other things which Sindney points to. However, Sidney believed " that man is made in the image of God is most profoundly expressed in man's replication, on a lower level, of God's function as a creator." If man is made in the image of God, or a replica, then why does Prufrock lack confidence towards the opposite sex, or in society in general, and focus on his physical flaws?
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