Read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." 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: how is this excerpt an example of dramatic monologue? a. the narrator is using long, interconnected sentences. b. the narrator is able to see into two character’s heads. c. the narrator is addressing the audience directly. d. the narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic.

The above excerpt is an example of dramatic monologue as:

C. The narrator is addressing the audience directly.

T.S. Elliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”  is a poem which is about the loneliness and melancholic state of human beings. He speaks about the frustration which a man undergoes in order to search the meaning of his existence in the world. The poet asks the readers to accompany him through the journey of his life which has been a pale and dull experience for him. The poem speaks about the unhappy life of Prufrock as he thinks that a much larger part of his life as ended.

the correct answer for this is the 4th option The narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic.

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