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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” makes several allusions to metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” (p. ). “And indeed there will be time” (ll. ) alludes to that poem’s first lines, in which the speaker urges his lady friend to consummate their relationship by reminding her how fast time flies: “Had we but world enough, and time / This coyness, lady, were no crime.” Later, “To have squeezed the universe into a ball” (l. ) alludes to the end of Marvell’s poem, in which the speaker makes one last pitch: “Let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness up into one ball.” How do we know that Prufrock’s purpose is different? What is the effect of alluding to Marvell’s flirtatious, self-confident poem?
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VerifiedReading the poem The Love Song by Alfred J. Prufrock, we interpret lines where Eliot alludes to the metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell (lines 23, 37, 92). So let's find out the meaning of the these lines.
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