 | 1927 - 554 pagine
...expanded in the same manner. The condensed conceit is more common in Eliot. Here are a few examples: a) When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table. — Pmfrock. i0 Gosse, Jacobean Poets. " Grierson, Ibid. b) We have been, let us say, to hear the latest... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer, Marianne Moore - 1919 - 532 pagine
...any volume of criticism: "Notice these lines from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by TS Eliot: 'Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread...against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.' " • There are innumerable possible comments upon these lines. On what aspect of them does Mrs. Wilkinson... | |
 | Marguerite Wilkinson - 1919 - 502 pagine
...undeniably alarmingly clever. Notice these lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by TS Eliot: "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread...against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table." The comparison would never come into the mind of a stupid man, of an unsophisticated man. It is clever,... | |
 | Marguerite Wilkinson - 1919 - 478 pagine
...undeniably alarmingly clever. Notice these lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by TS Eliot: "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized uoon a table." When the evening is spread out agair Like a patient etherized upon a table The comparison... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1919 - 400 pagine
...of the dissolution of middle age and the tragedy of thinning hair. The poem begins casually enough : Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky . . . 309 And then the poet stopped. " You and I " . . . " evening " . . . " sky "... It had a familiar... | |
 | Arthur Melville Clark - 1922 - 92 pagine
...question, Are jhese poetejndeecljrue to fact_? The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock begins thus : " Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread...against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table." Was it truth to life which inspired Mr. Eliot to this effort or was it a determination at all costs... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1923 - 466 pagine
...of the dissolution of middle age and the tragedy of thinning hair. The poem hegins casually enough : Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky . . . And then the poet stopped. "You and I" ... "evening" . . . "sky" ... It had a familiar and hence... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1923 - 462 pagine
...senility. A hasty subcutaneous injection of some startling simile might save it. Therefore : . . . evening is spread out against the sky — Like a patient etherized upon the table. Thus the opening of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," possibly the most successful... | |
 | Clement Wood - 1925 - 430 pagine
...Prufrock" is his best known early work, a clever bit of sophisticated verse containing lines like: The evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table. Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis ? and this... | |
 | Marjorie Hope Nicolson - 1925 - 472 pagine
...same poem blurs the general effect. Carried to an extreme as they have been in such lines as these: Evening is spread out against the sky — Like a patient etherized upon the table, or this — whatever it may mean! Pig Cupid his rosy snout Rooting erotic garbage, these... | |
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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table... 
