" The speaker of this poem states, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
This poem alludes to "To His Coy Mistress" with lines like "and indeed there will be time" and "to have squeezed the universe into a ball," and refers to the story of John the Baptist when its speaker claims to have seen his head "brought in upon a platter." The speaker of this poem states, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." This poem's hesitant speaker says that he is "not Prince Hamlet" and asks questions such as "Do I dare to eat a peach?" and "Do I dare disturb the universe?" For 10 points, "women come and go, talking of Michelangelo" in what poem by T.S. Eliot?
This poem alludes to "To His Coy Mistress" with lines like "and indeed there will be time" and "to have squeezed the universe into a ball," and refers to the story of John the Baptist when its speaker claims to have seen his head "brought in upon a platter.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" [or "Prufrock"]