... keep the dust down. 105. a magic lantern: device that throws a magnified image of a picture on glass onto a white screen in a dark room. 111. Prince Hamlet: not Shakespeare's noble prince, who resisted the temptation to commit suicide in his "To be or not to be" speech (alluded to at line's end), but instead ... , Eliot's most famous. The beginning of the poem is pre-empted by an excerpt from Dante's Inferno which Eliot uses to create the poem's serious tone, but also to begin his exploration of Prufrock's self-consciousness. By inserting this quote, a parallel is created between Prufrock...

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• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School