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What symbols do you find and what do they suggest? Notice those thatrelate to the sea, even oyster-shells (line 7).
 
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What gnaws at Prufrock?
 
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  • XJK points out blatantly that water has connotations of sexual fulfillment, and quotes Western Wind. Eliot hints that, unlike Prufrock, the vulgar types who inhabit cheap hotels and fish shops have a love life.



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  • Not just his sense of growing old, not just his inability to act. He suffers from Prufrocks Complaint: dissociation of sensibility. In line 105, unable to join thought and feeling, he sees his own nerves existing at one remove from him, as if thrown on a screen by a projector.






 

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