Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half -deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it ?" Let us go and make our visit. Questions: A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken. B. What are the characteristics of the protagonist in the poem? C.What figure of speech is used in the second and third lines?
A: T. S. EILOT IS THE POET AND THE TITLE OF THE POEM IS THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK.B: PRUFROCK, THE PROTAGONIST OF THE POEM, IS NEUROTIC, SELF-IMPORTANT, ILLOGICAL AND INCAPABLE OF ACTION. HE IS A KIND OF TRAGIC FIGURE CAUGHT IN A SENSE OF DEFEATED IDEALISM AND TORTURED BY UNSATISFIED DESIRES.C: THE FIGURE OF SPEECH USED IN THE SECOND AND THIRD LINES IS SIMILE.
