Read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." 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: how is this excerpt an example of dramatic monologue? the narrator is using long, interconnected sentences. the narrator is able to see into two character's heads. the narrator is addressing the audience directly. the narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic

In which set of lines in this excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" does the speaker compare himself to an insect?

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

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,

The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes

Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,

Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,

Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,

Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,

And seeing that it was a soft October night,

Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

And I have known the eyes already, known them all—

The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,

And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,

Then how should I begin

To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

 And how should I presume?

And would it have been worth it, after all,

After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,

Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,

Would it have been worth while,

To have bitten off the matter with a smile,

...

If one, settling a pillow by her head,

 Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;

 That is not it, at all."

Am an attendant lord, one that will do

To swell a progress, start a scene or two,

Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,

Deferential, glad to be of use,

Politic, cautious, and meticulous;

Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;

 

Explanation:

The above excerpt is an example of dramatic monologue as:

C. The narrator is addressing the audience directly.

T.S. Elliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”  is a poem which is about the loneliness and melancholic state of human beings. He speaks about the frustration which a man undergoes in order to search the meaning of his existence in the world. The poet asks the readers to accompany him through the journey of his life which has been a pale and dull experience for him. The poem speaks about the unhappy life of Prufrock as he thinks that a much larger part of his life as ended.

the correct answer for this is the 4th option The narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic.

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The narrator is using long, interconnected sentences.

Explanation:

This excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is an example of a dramatic monologue. The text is a monologue because the speaker is giving a sort of speech. He is talking to himself exclusively, without intervention from any other character. Moreover, the text has a dramatic tone as the speaker uses long, interconnected sentences.

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Read the excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." 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: How is this excerpt an example of dramatic monologue?

A. The narrator is using long, interconnected sentences.

B. The narrator is able to see into two character’s heads.

C. The narrator is addressing the audience directly.

D. The narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic.

C. The narrator is addressing the audience directly.

Explanation:

The poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a dramatic monologue. The speaker is addressing someone, unveiling his thoughts and emotions, his fears and concerns. That is the typical characteristic of dramatic monologues: in the form of a speech or a narrative, the speaker reveals his emotions, actions, or motives. Since the poem does not offer an interlocutor to Prufrock's words, it is safe to assume he is speaking directly to his audience, to his readers ("The narrator is addressing the audience directly" is the best answer for that reason). When he says, "you and I", or "let us", it is the reader he is inviting, as if the reader is the only friend he'll ever have. Prufrock is, therefore, speaking his mind, even though he does not wish for a response.

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