Read the excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Shall I say I have gone at dusk through narrow streets

And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes

Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? ...

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

which words best indicate that Prufrock feels isolated?

A. narrow, lonely, silent

B. rises, leaning, scuttling

C. streets, windows, seas

D. smoke, pipes, floors

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Amelia Wheeler

9 March, 21:34

Read the excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Shall I say I have gone at dusk through narrow streets

And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes

Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? ...

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

which words best indicate that Prufrock feels isolated?

A. narrow, lonely, silent

B. rises, leaning, scuttling

C. streets, windows, seas

D. smoke, pipes, floors

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Steven Copeland · Answer 1

A

Explanation:

The words that best express a feeling of isolation are narrow, lonely, and silent. Walking at dusk through narrow streets brings to mind a dark and solitary setting. The impression given to the reader by lonely men in their windows is even more melancholy and hints that these people did not have any company either. Finally, if the seas or expanses of something are silent then there is no one or nothing to keep the author company.