Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half- deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one -night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
(The lines above are taken from “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” by T.S Eliot.)
Questions:
A.What does the poem present?
B.What form is the poem composed in?
C.What does the poem suggest?
【正确答案】：A.presenting the meditation of an aging young man over the business of proposing marriage;
B.in a form of dramatic monologue;
C.suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended Love song" and a confession a(the speaker incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.
