And would it have been worth it, after all After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, Would it have been worth while To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it toward some overwhelming question, To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you …showed first 75 words of 1264 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1264 total…feelings about the poem. The most crucial aspect of the selection is that the reader can see and feel the pathetic state of Prufrock. In doing so Eliot completes his objective, and the reader is richer for having this insight into the plight of an average, timid man.. Credits References to the alluded works were found in The Prufrock Papers found on the World Wide Web at: http://www.usask.ca/english/prufrock/index.htm