Answer:
They are not opening the gift?
Explanation:
The poem is a revisitation of a traditional romantic love song which is altered in order to present a critique of the sentiment of a classical liberal education. Modernist poetry, as such, is meant to express the challenges of progress, the struggle to come up with new ideas and criticism of old patterns of thought.
The refrain which goes ¨In the room the women come and go, Talking of Michaelangelo¨ frames the symbolism of the urban setting describing the emotional context where Prufrock reflects on modern existance. This is meant to emphasize the day-to-day existence that is the focus of the truly modern thinker.
The criticism of a classical form of education is stated most clearly in the following verses: ¨To say: ¨I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back down to tell you all, I shall tell you all¨ - If one, settling a pillow by her head Should say: ¨That is not what I meant at all; That is not it, at all.¨.
The biblical theme of the resurrection is brought up to poke fun at the preoccupation in canonical forms of education with studying the ´cornerstones´ of European culture without having a context relating them to the issues and concepts which are important in the contemporary sense.
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