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Read the excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."


Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets

And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes

Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? . . .


I should have been a pair of ragged claws

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.


Which words best indicate that Prufrock feels isolated?




narrow, lonely, silent


streets, windows, seas


smoke, pipes, floors


rises, leaning, scuttling

Verified Answer :

narrow, lonely, silent

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In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the words that best indicate that Prufrock feels isolated are:

A. Narrow, lonely, silent.

  • "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T. S. Eliot, has Prufrock as the speaker.
  • Prufrock is a man experiencing a mid-life crisis. He has not been successful in finding satisfaction, either carnal or spiritual.
  • Throughout the poem, the author uses several words and images to convey how isolated the speaker feels.
  • In the passage we are analyzing here, the words that convey such feeling are "narrow", "lonely", and "silent".
  • Prufrock feels that he is just an observer. Other people live, talk, laugh, eat. He watches them, afraid to join in.

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