...watched the smoke that rises from the pipes )f lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? . . . should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. Uid the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully ! Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep . . . tired...

...in the intense levity of feeling (a phrase Eliot once applied to Catullus) which suffuses the poem. I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. I have measured out my life with coffee spoons j But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,...

...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...lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows ? . . . m w- , x, I should have been a pair of ragged claws f\fl, /TJ\_* IT, £3 A CJCJ m^ Scuttling...

...providing a picture in words — a "correlative" of the poet's emotion. Eliot's own image, "Would I were a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas" is often cited as an objective correlative for the awkward social embarrassment felt by Prufrock. who...

...highly overdetermined by the end of Coppola's film, as Kurtz is represented as a figure of mutilation. "I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas" (Eliot, "Prufrock," 5), the photojournalist quotes Kurtz as quoting. As Willard tries to decide what...

...would listen to his experiences in "narrow streets" and because his life is useless and empty, Prufrock "should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas" (CPP, 5). He would have done as well in the primitive form of a crab, which represents the early stages...

...all" (pp. 5-7). Eliot's point is that the quandary confonted by Prufrock is metaphysical, not physical ("I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas," with the emphasis on silent). Fishbein's point, by contrast, was that Stein's writing possessed an...

...black blooming. —Christopher Smart With my whole body I taste these peaches. — Wallace Stevens I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. — TS Eliot The blindman placed a tulip on his tongue for purple's taste. —May Swenson A woman so...

...and causal sequence in regard to agency. Too much anguish, anyway. T. S Eliot (1917/1952a) writes, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." Do you as "claw creature" need a syntactical plan? If your reversion from Eliot's T to "claws" is complete,...

...lamplight, downed with light brown hair!) And should I then presume? And how should I begin? * * * Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets...have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floor of silent seas. * * * And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! Smoothed by long...