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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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after reading the poem, what irony is suggested by its title?
the title is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", but Prufrock's problem is finding love and talking to the women.
explain the significance of the inclusion of Dante's Inferno as the epigram?
Prufrock is going through his own version of hell
identify 2 technical aspects in line 1.
altered syntax, caesura
"The muttering retreats" is an example of what poetic device?
personification
stanza one contains and example of apostrophe- identify it.
"oh do not ask what is it"
the women aren't talking of Michelangelo, specifically. what are they actually talking about?
men more sophisticated than Prufrock.
to what is the smoke and fog compared to in lines 15-22 emphasizing Eliot's tendency to linger and hesitate outside the party?
a cat
provide an example of tactile imagery in lines 20-22.
soft
Andrew Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress" is a poem in which the speaker discourages his lover from playing coy love games because we don't have "world enough and time." how do lines 22-33 in Eliot's poem represent a different attitude toward time?
"There will be time" is repeated
what does Prufrock mean by rhetorically asking "Do I Dare?"
should he talk to the women?
in lines 45-46 "Do I dare disturb the universe?" is an example of what poetic device?
hyperbole
what is meant by "measured out my life with coffee spoons" in line 51?
he was meticulous.
what does Prufrock mean by the word presume in line 54?
does he have it in him
explain what Prufrock is saying about the women in lines 55-61.
he knows their eyes because they watch him. he feels like a bug pinned on the wall for a collection.
Prufrock comes to an overwhelming conclusion in line 73-74. what is it that he decides about himself?
he should be a crab in the ocean
why is the sea an appropriate place for Prufrock to exist?
it is lonely
"I am Lazarus, come from the dead" is an example of what poetic device?
allusion
who is the eternal Footman?
death
what is Prufrock questioning and second guessing in lines 87-98?
to take action
in lines 111-120, Prufrock says he is not prince Hamlet, but instead and "attendant lord." to whom, specifically, is Prufrock alluding?
Polonious
lines 120-121 contain what type of questions?
rhetorical
why mermaids? what is the significance to them to Prufrock?
the women. the sea
explain the last line of the poem.
people- reality sets in
identify an example of olfactory imagery in the poem.
perfume from a dress- line 65
identify an example of a metaphor
oyster shells- line 7. his life is empty like a shell.
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