This poem's epigraph consists of lines spoken by Guido di Montefeltro in Dante's Inferno, while the opening lines compare the evening to "a patient etherized upon a table". The title character emphasizes that he is not Prince Hamlet, and wishes that he was "a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
This poem's epigraph consists of lines spoken by Guido di Montefeltro in Dante's Inferno, while the opening lines compare the evening to "a patient etherized upon a table". The title character emphasizes that he is not Prince Hamlet, and wishes that he was "a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." That character is also anxious about talking to women who "come and go/ Talking of Michelangelo", and wonders "Do I dare / Disturb the Universe?" Beginning with "Let us go then, you and I," FTP, identify this poem by T. S. Eliot.
This poem's epigraph consists of lines spoken by Guido di Montefeltro in Dante's Inferno, while the opening lines compare the evening to "a patient etherized upon a table".
The {Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock}