Prufrock.

T.S. Eliot has composed this piece in what acts like a stream of thought, as if the imagery is coming directly as he is writing. His audience is unclear, potentially he is speaking to another or these thoughts are within himself, as an older man. He often refers to imagery of thinning hair and lonely existence, propelling the idea that he is alone and seeks companionship. The piece centers around his inability to make a decision about some sort of action of thought he wants to express, and he struggles with this throughout (Do i dare disturb the universe? In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.) He attributes his nervousness to women (Is it perfume from a dress that makes me so digress?) and seems to be self conscious about his outward aged appearance. 

Brooks readings of close poetry often center around paradoxical themes. He believes that all poetry inevitably reflects these contradictions, even without the authors intent to do so. Arguably he believes that every poem can be interpreted as a poem about poetry. In Prufrock, the title of the poem including the word "Lovesong" is a contradiction to the theme of the poem, in which Eliot does nothing to suggest that the piece is a reflection of any serious love affair, rather of a man's struggle to understand how to express his own feelings. A lovesong often expresses concrete feelings without doubt, and Eliot torments himself with whether or not his thoughts are important enough to say, whether or not he'd communicate his sentiments poorly (And turning toward the window, should say: That is not it at all, that is not what I meant at all.) I am skeptical about Brooks' theory behind all poetry being a reflection of poetry. The ideas and imagery presented in poetry are in themselves enough of a description of poetic form, without attributing it to any sort of formula from piece to piece.