Stone Harty
Ms. Robbins
English 4AP (Block B)
12/7/15
24). The Bible tells the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead by calling his name, which Lazarus walks out of the tomb. Prufrock is so ill-equipped to express his inner feelings that he likens doing so to something as monumental as Lazarus’s coming back with knowledge of the underworld. This image also recalls the epigraph from Dante at the poem’s start, translated as: “But since no man has ever come alive / out of this gulf of Hell, if I hear true.”
25). By alluding to Hamlet in his poem, Prufrock recognizes that he plays a relatively unimportant, feeble part in the grand design of the world. The famous quote from Hamlet: “To be or not to be”, draws up a comparison between Prufrock
Ms. Robbins
English 4AP (Block B)
12/7/15
24). The Bible tells the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead by calling his name, which Lazarus walks out of the tomb. Prufrock is so ill-equipped to express his inner feelings that he likens doing so to something as monumental as Lazarus’s coming back with knowledge of the underworld. This image also recalls the epigraph from Dante at the poem’s start, translated as: “But since no man has ever come alive / out of this gulf of Hell, if I hear true.”
25). By alluding to Hamlet in his poem, Prufrock recognizes that he plays a relatively unimportant, feeble part in the grand design of the world. The famous quote from Hamlet: “To be or not to be”, draws up a comparison between Prufrock