The speaker invokes various scenarios including one "stretched on the floor" after "tea and cakes and ices" and another where a necktie "rich and modest" is ignored and "they will say… but how his legs and arms are thin."
The speaker invokes various scenarios including one "stretched on the floor" after "tea and cakes and ices" and another where a necktie "rich and modest" is ignored and "they will say… but how his legs and arms are thin." The speaker then considers a "formulated phrase" that pins him to the wall before deciding to wear the "the bottoms of my trousers rolled." It ends with a vision of "sea-girls," but begins with an epigraph that quotes Guido da Montefeltro, from the Inferno. First published in a 1917 collection, that took its title by combining the main character's last name with the words "and Other Observations," on line 111 its speaker declares that he is "not Prince Hamlet" and the poem earlier features the refrain, "In the room the women come and go/ Talking of Michelangelo." For ten points, identify this poem that begins "Let us go then, you and I," a work by T.S. Eliot.
The speaker invokes various scenarios including one "stretched on the floor" after "tea and cakes and ices" and another where a necktie "rich and modest" is ignored and "they will say… but how his legs and arms are thin."
“{The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock}”