Profrock's Head
The Women
Imagery
Literary Elements
Setting
100

Profrock wondered this as he thought about approaching the women.

What is, "How should I begin?"

What is "Do I dare disturb the universe?

100

The women talked to _______ _________ in the room.

Who is each other?

100

Would it have been worth while is an example of this literary device.

What is alliteration?

100

Do I dare is this type of literary element.

What is alliteration?

100

Profrock walks with the reader in the evening during this month of the year.

What is October?

200

The speaker says he will do t his when he grows old.

What is, "I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled?

200

The women spoke of him as they come and go.

Who is Michaelangelo?

200
In his conversation with the reader, Profrock says this makes him digress.

What is perfume from a dress?

200

Using a simile, Profrock describes the streets as this.

What are streets that follow like a tedious argument?

200

Profrock invites the reader to go with him through the half-deserted streets at this time of the day. 

What is evening?

300

Profrock was afraid the women would see this as he turned to go down the stairs. 

What is his bald spot?

300

Profrock noticed this about the women's arms.

What is braceleted and white and bare?

300

The yellow fog does this as the reader and Profrock take an evening stroll.

What is rubs its back upon the window-panes?

300

Profrock uses a simile to compare the evening sky to this. 

What is a patient etherized on a table?

300

Prufrock says he has gone here at dusk.  

What are narrow streets?

400

They will say, "Look how his ______ and _______ are thin."

What are arms and legs?

400

Profrock describes this trailing along the floor.

What are skirts?

400

They do not sing to Prufrock in his conversation with the reader.

Who are the mermaids?

400

But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, is an example of this.

What is alliteration?

What is Biblical allusion?

400

The speaker describes muttering retreats coming from this place.

What are one-night cheap hotels?

500

Profrock describes his head as this being brought on a platter.

What is grown slightly bald?

500

Profrock said some of the arms are wrapped about this. 

What is a shawl?

500

The speaker is so self-conscious about his bald spot that he wants to do this with his hair.

What is part my hair behind?

500

Using a metaphor, Profrock compares himself to this, scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

What is a pair of ragged claws?

500

Profrock said he and the reader have lingered here.

What is the chambers of the sea?

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