... on with his life, always wondering what could have happened. Jay Dougherty compared Prufrock to the character, Guido de Montafeltro, the doomed spirit in Dantes A Divine Comedy. He suggests that Eliot used the headnote from Dante because Guido and Prufrock were both faced with an overwhelming question (Dougherty.) Dougherty goes on to explain that the questions they faced made them question their ... , rather, focuses on Prufrocks inability, in the absence of any absolute, any right or wrong, to confront the question (39). While both Guido and Prufrock must answer an overwhelming questio...

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... Missouri in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. Eliot was born into a middle class family originally from New England. T.S. Eliot's grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot had moved to St. Louis, Missouri in ... correct in dress, and intellectually independent. He studied under such versatile men as William James, George Santayana, Josiah Royce, and Irving Babbitt. He discovered Dante and heard talk of reviving poetic drama. Eliot's stay at Harvard to earn a master of arts in philosophy was i...

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... and tea. 35 In the room the women come and go 36 Talking of Michelangelo. 37 And indeed there will be time 38 To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" 39 Time to turn back and descend the stair, 40 With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -- 41 (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!") 42 My ... by T. S. Eliot ... The poet's life and works ... Composition Date: February 1910 - July/August 1911. Form: irregularly rhyming. 1. The epigraph comes from the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy (XXVII, 61-66). Count Guido da Montefeltro, embodied in a flame, replies to Dante's question ab...

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