1. Who wrote the poem of the love song of J Alfred Prufrock?
T.S Eliot
2. When was the poem published?
1915
3. Who is the speaker of the poem?
J Alfred Prufrock
4. In the poem streets are compared to?
Tedious argument
5. In the room, the women come can go, are talking
about whom?
Michelangelo
6. Who was Michelangelo?
A great Italian painter
7. Yellow fog is compared to?
Cat
8. What rubs its back upon the window panes?
yellow fog?
9. The fog has changed into?
Smoke
10. What slides along the street?
Yellow smoke
11. What makes the speaker digress?
Perfume from dress
12. When was T.S Eliot born?
1888
13. What is the form of the poem?
Dramatic monologue
14. What personal connection did the name J Alfred Prufrock
have for Eliot?
He used to sign his name
"T Sterns Eliot"
15. The poem is strongly influenced by?
French symbolists
16. What is the theme of the poem?
Anxiety, indecision,
inaction, desire and modernity
17. How many lines does the epigraph contain?
6 lines
18. In what language the epigraph is written?
Italian
19. The epigraph is taken from?
Dante's inferno
20. The lines of epigraph are spoken by?
Guido do Montefeltro
21. What is the setting of the poem?
Desolate and hostile
urban landscape
22. When was the poem written?
1910
23. In the word "Yellow fog" what does the
color yellow symbolize?
Condition of modern life,
which is shaped by technology and industrial prodution.
24. What does teas and toast symbolize?
The symbolize the banal
and suffocating qualities of modern life, in which the same ritual proceed day
after day.
25. Who is the listener in the epigraph?
Dante
26. Whose line does Eliot parody with "in the
room the women come and go?
Jules Laforgue
27. What poem does the line "an indeed there will
be time allude to?
To his coy mistress
28. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
Free verse with
occasional rhymes
29. What was the original title of the poem?
Prufrck Among the Women
30. What subliminal meaning did Eliot want the name
"Prufrock" to contain?
A "Prude" in a
"Frock"
31. Who is the footman in the poem?
Death
32. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock
compares himself to?
Hamlet
33. What salient aspects of Prufrock's physical
appearance has mentioned in the poem at least three time?
His baldness
34. What does Prufrock wonders if he could dare eat?
Peach
35. Where was Eliot when he started writing the poem?
At Harvard
36. What do the sawdust restaurants contain?
Oyster shells
37. What licked its tongue into the corners of the
evening?
Yellow smoke
38. Whom does the narrator think will not sing to him?
Mermaids
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