...not of itself belittled, but is brought into relation with the actual failings of the protagonist. There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works of days and hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me. And time...

...better that anonymous work of creation; the labours of those vanished hands. VIRGINIA WOOLF, Orlando And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate T. s. ELIOT, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" There is a paradox in these quotations. On the one...

...depressing jobs as teacher and banker. Eliot in fact was the personal poet, the poet who always took the time "To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet," as if to expose a deceptive part of himself so as to hide a more important part. Yet he left tracks,...

...upon a table," the fog as an animal, its behavior elaborately described), the transitions unmotivated: There will be time, there will be time To prepare...That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for yon and time for me, And so on; the familiarity of the lines can disguise their random motions, their...

...Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," for example, he echoes the same lines in Maud that Clough quotes: "There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."84 At one level, Prufrock's obsession with his appearance is a metaphoric commentary on Eliot's...

...time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street Rubbing its back upon the window panes; [2.5] There will be time, there will be time To prepare...hands That lift and drop a question on your plate: [30] Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions And for a hundred visions...

...famous line, which scans as iambic hexameter, underscores the humour by seeming to lurch on too long: There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet Such effects are clearly metrical, though they occur in a poem often said to be written in "free verse,"...

...American Puritan errand, the legacy of theocratic preachers, has failed to find present-day continuators: "all the works and days of hands / That lift and drop a question on your plate" implies a momentous inheritance of others' time and labor that, in the trivial setting of genteel society,...

...passage, this irony or interplay of private, social and readerly viewpoints, is meditationally prepared: There will be time, there will be time To prepare...you meet; There will be time to murder and create . . . The repetitions of the amplitude of time, the words 'meet' and 'face' - are obsessive. Their...

...determiniert, die aber ihrerseits auch Ritualen unterworfen ist. And indeed the a- will be time (...) time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your platt-; (...) And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before...