Prufrock became a coward as the poem A Love Song unfolded more and more and while at first Dante appeared to be wise he turned out to be proud and treacherous. Prufrock throughout the poem was simply trying to communicate his eternal love to the woman he cared about. However, he was too afraid to put his feelings on the table. In the poem he starts justifying his inaction by saying that he has done many things in his life like drinking a lot of coffee and survived for many days, and he has many other things to worry about in his life just trying to justify himself. who never stepped up and asked the important question. Likewise, Dante lived a life he could be proud of, but one of his most terrible actions in Clark 4 was thinking he could outwit God by justifying his behavior. Dante basically committed war crimes, but he did so knowing that he would come to God and repent. This is not true repentance because he thought God should have given it to him anyway. Dante was just looking for an excuse to hide the negative and ugly parts of himself and his past. Obviously Prufrock and Montefeltro were immoral men because they both lied to themselves to hide who they really were; Prufrock was a coward who was afraid to initiate love and Dante was a liar who was afraid of his intentions