The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes,/The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes/Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,/ Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains...
Questions：
A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which this stanza is taken.
B.Write down the characteristic of the protagonist in the poem.
C.What is the setting of the poem?
【正确答案】：A.T.S. Eliot s The Love Song o f J. Al fred Pru f rock.
B.Prufrock,the protagonist of the poem,is neurotic,self-important,illogical,and incapable of action. He is a kind of tragic figure in a sense of defeated idealism and tortured by unsatisfied desires.
C.The setting of the poem resembles the “polite society” of Pope's The Rape oJ the Lock ・ in which a tea party is a significant event and a game of cards is the only way to stave off boredom.(P363)
