A. The speaker refers to Lazarus to convey the idea that people should live in the moment because life is short.
Explanation:
Eliot, who wrote this poem in the early 1900's, expresses his ideas through Prufrock. This man is too rational and would like to fall in love with a woman , but he is tortured by his own reasoning. In this excerpt, Prufrock is questioning "life" , even events from everyday life: "After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, // Among the porcelain, ....// To have bitten off the matter with a smile, .." Then, he thinks that too much questioning may be useless since we live for a short period of time: " If one, settling a pillow by her head, // Should say: "That is not what I meant at all; //That is not it, at all." This means that when we die - the poet thinks her love may die- all our explanations are senseless.
