A. Hamlet believes that death is a quiet, somber event that is best carried out alone.
The lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" most likely influenced Sandburg’s poem is this:
- 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, The fog in Sandburg’s poem has a parallel representation with the as a cat in the above line from the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
