In which set of lines in this excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" does the speaker compare himself t
o an insect?
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
[And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent]
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
[Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,]
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep
And I have known the eyes already, known them all—
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
[And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,]
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?
[And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain], among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
...
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all."
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
(lines with [***] around them are selectable answers)
