In a collection named for this poem, a man walks home "As a madman shakes a dead geranium" and sees a street-lamp sputter, mutter, and tell him to "Regard" a specific woman; that poem is "Rhapsody on a Windy Night."
In a collection named for this poem, a man walks home "As a madman shakes a dead geranium" and sees a street-lamp sputter, mutter, and tell him to "Regard" a specific woman; that poem is "Rhapsody on a Windy Night." This poem refers to a phenomenon that "rubs its back upon the window-panes," and the speaker notes that certain times of the day sleep so peacefully before revising himself to say that they may malinger.  Its speaker questions whether he dare eat a peach or part his hair from behind after he dismisses comparisons of himself with John the Baptist and Hamlet, likening himself more to the Fool.  Set on an evening "spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised on a table," and taking place during a party during which "women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo, FTP, name this poem in which the title character claims to have measured his life "in coffee spoons," a work of T.S. Eliot.
In a collection named for this poem, a man walks home "As a madman shakes a dead geranium" and sees a street-lamp sputter, mutter, and tell him to "Regard" a specific woman; that poem is "Rhapsody on a Windy Night."
“The {Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock}” (prompt on “Prufrock”) (1)