The answer is option D. The event from the love song that best shows the isolating world theme is that Prufroock wishes he were a crab living by the sea floor.
Explanation:
The title, the epigraph, and the first lines of the song are just some techniques used to demonstrate the isolationism of the modern man in Eliot’s classic poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. In this poem, the character is trying to find love but is having a hard time with this as he is fearful, analytical and depressed. This is why he wishes he were a crab living on the sea floor. If he were a crab he could keep to himself, stay away from people, and safe on his own.
Prufrock end it calling himself crab-like. When you get to the lines 120 to 131. the poems is already giving you some incredible and impossible ocean imagery. One that has the singing of mermaids and the sea-girls wearing seaweed. If the world is so isolating, being a crab in the middle of the described imagery is not that bad. And that is the point. The correct answer is:
D Prufrock wishes he were a crab living on the seafloor
