The title speaker of this poem has a "necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin", and has "measured out [his] life with coffee-spoons".
This is the title poem of a collection which also includes "The Boston Evening Transcript" and "Portrait of a Lady". The title speaker of this poem has a "necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin", and has "measured out [his] life with coffee-spoons". Near the end of the poem, the speaker laments that the mermaids "will not sing to me," and earlier asks "Do I dare to eat a peach?" For 10 points, name this poem in which "the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo," by T. S. Eliot.
This is the title poem of a collection which also includes "The Boston Evening Transcript" and "Portrait of a Lady".
"The {Love Song} of {J. Alfred Prufrock}"