Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. ... Alfred Prufrock, the use of a perfect rhyme can be exhibited: And would it have been worth it, after all, After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it toward some overwhelming question, (ll. 87-93) (DeRoche, 337) Ciuro 3 In Robert Lowell's poem The Skunk Hour, the...

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The '[drinking] of coffee' is a menial act, suggesting the inanimate qualities of people in need of stimulus, whilst the indolent conversation which follows indicates the hollow existence of Western aristocratic society; a concept explored further in Eliot's 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock', as '[he has] measured out [his] life in coffee spoons' implying a meticulously planned rationale, investing effort solely in the material tedium of 'drinking coffee'. ...

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