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Love is something that feels eternal. When a person is in love, time feels like an unimportant side-note. When time is taken into consideration by a lover, however, the lover realizes that time will conquer his emotions. Even when it seems as though time is aiding the lover, its effects are actually negative. Both W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot support the idea that time's unstoppable progression is detrimental to love. In Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" the abundance of time that the lover Prufrock thinks he has allows him to be hesitant in approaching his lover, whereas in Eliot's poem time is seen as a relentless killer of everything temporary, love included. Time becomes the antagonist as the poems progress forward and because of the fact that time is so hard to perceive, both lovers are trapped by their misinterpretations of how much time that they have left.