Sunday 27 February 2011

What does To have squeezed the universe into a ball / To roll it toward some overwhelming question mean? Kindly enlighten me in detail.

This is
one of those all too brief moments in the poem when Prufrock seems on the brink of seizing the
day and abandoning himself to his carnal desires. In the quoted line above, Eliot alludes to a
similar line in Marvell's "To his Coy Mistress," where the speaker urges his beloved
to roll up all their combined strength...

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