Read the following lines from t. s. eliot's "the love song of j. alfred
prufrock":
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:
streets that follow like a tedious argument
of insidious intent
to lead you to an overwhelming question.
oh, do not ask, "what is it? "
let us go and make our visit
in the room the women come and go
talking of michelangelo.
which sentence best analyzes the poet's use of allusion in this passage?
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a. the speaker compares the evening to an etherized patient to
suggest the ideas of fatigue and decay.
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b. the speaker refers to michelangelo to show how people pretend
to be who they're not so they can fit in
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c. the speaker mentions hamlet to show how he comes to terms
with indecision and makes a stand
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d. the speaker refers to "one-night cheap hotels to suggest that
people can live frugally in difficult times.