Its speaker admits that he is "not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be" and says he "should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas".
John Hakac claimed that this poem's "organically complete" third stanza contains "three distinct phases of love". Its speaker makes a comparison to "a magic lantern" which "threw the nerves in patterns on a screen" and describes "the voices dying with a dying fall / Beneath the music from a farther room". Its speaker admits that he is "not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be" and says he "should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas". Opening with the line "Let us go then, you and I," it describes the speaker's distaste for women who "come and go / Talking of Michelangelo." For 10 points, identify this poem by T.S. Eliot.
John Hakac claimed that this poem's "organically complete" third stanza contains "three distinct phases of love".
“The Love {Song} of {J. Alfred Prufrock}” [prompt on {Prufrock}; prompt on its {original title}, “{Prufrock Among} the {Women}”]