The speaker further profess to be "deferential, glad to be of use, . . .
This poem's speaker notes "the eyes that fix [him] in a formulated phrase," and its epigraph begins "S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse." The speaker further profess to be "deferential, glad to be of use, . . . at times, indeed, almost ridiculous" after declaring that he is an attendant lord and not a certain royal figure, "nor [was he] (*) meant to be." Thinning arms and legs and a bald spot are anticipated in this poem, whose epigraph is drawn from Dante's Inferno. It begins with an invitation to make a visit "when the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table." The speaker observes how "the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" in, for 10 points, what poem by T.S. Eliot?
This poem's speaker notes "the eyes that fix [him] in a formulated phrase," and its epigraph begins "S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse."
“The {Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”}