Prufrock Fog

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A. Eliot is setting a romantic tone in the beginning of stanza one, "when the evening is spread out against the sky."
B. "Like a patient etherized upon a table" gives an imagery of sickness and "one night cheap hotels" is the feeling of dirtiness where there is only one night stands in sketchy hotels and as sleep is hard or impossible.
C. The third stanza of the "yellow fog" is both threatening and soothing since it's comparing it to a cat looking around but the gas can actually kill you going around that area. As the fog is more of a disgusting playful way. My interpretation of the fog affects my reading as horrific.
D. It's effect of the way Eliot makes the reader's eye actually see what it looks like when
Prufrock is roaming the streets …show more content…

"Let us go through certain half­deserted streets" "The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window panes licked it's tongue into the corners of the evening."
E. The effect of fragments are appearing to be a dangerous type with the "yellow smoke",
"murder and create", "visions and revisions", and "toast and tea". The form a picture where Eliot communicates the readers about where Prufrock is located at and how it looks.
F. Prufrocks physical description quotes "With a bald spot in the middle of my hair­ [They will say: "how his hair is growing thin!"]... [they will say: "How his arms and legs are thin!"]."
Prufrocks physical characteristics connect to emotional states of being judge by the people around him.
G. "And when I'm formulated, sprawling on a pin, when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall"
Prufrock feels as if the people are to stare at him and to judge his appearance he is uncomfortable when the eyes are staring at him.
H. The repetition of "and" is the mental state of Prufrock being nervous. Which he states "And how should I presume" meaning should he ask the overwhelming question.
I. The effect of the semicolons in lines 111­121 creates a relationship with the quote "No! I

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