The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Study Guide

1. Who is the speaker in the epigraph?

• Michelangelo
• Guido da Montefeltro
• Dante
• Prufrock

2. Who is the listener in the epigraph?

• Michelangelo
• Guido da Montefeltro
• Dante
• Prufrock

3. Whose line does Eliot parody with "In the room the women come and go"?

• Hesiod
• Stephen Mallarme
• Jules Laforgue
• Charles Baudelaire

4. Whose work does "works and days of hands" reference?

• Hesiod
• Stephen Mallarme
• Jules Laforgue
• Charles Baudelaire

5. What poem does "And indeed there will be time" allude to?

• "The Road Less Traveled"
• "The Snowman"
• "To His Coy Mistress"
• Shakespeare's Sonnet 73

6. How might one characterize the rhyme scheme of "Prufrock"?

• ababcdcdeeff
• aabbccddefef
• Free verse
• Free verse with occasional rhymes

7. What 19th-century French poets had a great influence on Eliot?

• The Metaphysicals
• The Symbolists
• The Realists
• The Sensualists

8. What was the original title of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

• "The Love Song of Johannes A. Prufrock"
• "Prufrock Among the Women"
• "What Do Prufrocks Want?"
• "Prufrock And the Women"

9. What personal connection did the name "J. Alfred Prufrock" have for Eliot?

• It was his original name
• He used to sign his name "T. Stearns Eliot"
• It was his uncle's name
• It was his grandfather's name

10. What subliminal meaning did Eliot want the name "Prufrock" to contain?

• "Prudential framing"
• A "proof" that is "frail"
• "Prior futility"
• A "prude" in a "frock"