It is assumed that J. Alfred Prufrock is a character that T. S. Eliot creates through the use of dramatic monologue. Using this method, the speaker addresses a silent listener and sometimes reveals qualities that he or she later may regret sharing. Compare the oral readings of the poem with your written reading. Write a summary paragraph that evaluates which interpretation of the poem you prefer. Use evaluation criteria and details from each reading to explain your reasoning.

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Excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot

"And I have known the arms already, known them all —
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
Arms that lies along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin?
. . .

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 or ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."

Which is not covered under the common topic “relationship” a. causes and effects b. comparisons and contrasts c. contraries and contradictions d. antecedents and consequences

I’ve given a lot of thought to what one of them should be, and the answer seems clear.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant