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:
(The lines above are taken from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S Eliot. )
Questions..
A. What does the poem present?
B. What form is the poem composed in?
C. What does the poem suggest?
【正确答案】:A. presenting the meditation of an aging young man over the business of proposing marriage;
B. in a form of dramatic monologue;
C. suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended" Love song"and confession of the speaker's incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.
Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against
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