1. Who wrote the poem
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 do
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
times?
His baldness
34. What does Prufrock
wonder 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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