The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

PART A: In lines 2-3, the narrator describes the evening “spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table.” What effect does this image have on the poem’s meaning?

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Prufrock feels emotionally, and perhaps physically, impotent. The quote evokes a sense of numbness or paralysis, mimicking Prufrock’s weariness and powerlessness in the face of making decisions.