The Lack of Communication...
Ah...miserable modern existence. Articulated in form, and substance. Lest we forget - here we should remember. Prufrock had not a great time... "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, | 90 |
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 all”— | 95 |
If one, settling a pillow by her head, | |
Should say: “That is not what I meant at all. | |
That is not it, at all.” | |
And would it have been worth it, after all, | |
Would it have been worth while, | 100 |
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, | |
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor— | |
And this, and so much more?— | |
It is impossible to say just what I mean! | |
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen: | 105 |
Would it have been worth while | |
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl, | |
And turning toward the window, should say: | |
“That is not it at all, | |
That is not what I meant, at all.” " From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot | |
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