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The speaker compares Charles Sherrill to the protagonist of the poem, J. Alfred Prufrock, describing him as a self-aware individual, seemingly lacking the confidence to take action.
This is from Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Maybe T.S. Eliot's most famous poem. And Prufrock is a kind of self-aware version of Charles Sherrill.
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The speaker compares Charles Sherrill to the protagonist of the poem, J. Alfred Prufrock, describing him as a self-aware individual, seemingly lacking the confidence to take action.
This is from Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Maybe T.S. Eliot's most famous poem. And Prufrock is a kind of self-aware version of Charles Sherrill.
No, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be.
Am an attendant lord. Am an attendant lord.
One that will do. One that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince. No doubt an easy tool, deferential, glad to be of use,
politic, cautious and particular, full of high sentence but a bit obtuse. At times indeed, almost ridiculous, almost at times the fool.