... and symbols, allusion and reference and word choice were extended: at the same time the limits of syntax as a resource for the expression of meaning were explored. Here is an example from the opening of T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, first published in 1915: Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; ... Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster ... shells: Streets that follow like a tedi...

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