... to retain her youth, and in turn she grew old and decayed with the ability only to 'wish to die'. This echoes Eliot's views of a barren and decaying society, with an inability to thrive towards its past magnificence, and sentenced to an ever dwindling vitality with ... 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, inves...

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