Now summarize the story of the poem. What parts does it fall into?

What will be an ideal response?



  • Part one: Prufrock prepares to try to ask the overwhelming question. Then in lines 84–86 we learn that he has failed to ask it. In 87–110 he tries to justify himself for chickening out. From 111 to the end he sums up his static present and hollow future.



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