“And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
“And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.
Then how should begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.”
A.Questions:
Identify the poem and the poet.
What does the phrase “butt-ends” mean?
What idea does the quoted passage express?
正确答案：T.S.Eliot: “The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck”
The ends of cigarettes, meaning trivial things here.
Here, Prufrock’s inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison.Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock’s current predicament.
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