![]() ![]() In this poem, however, it’s as if Prufrock were overhearing the "voices" of another couple – maybe Orsino and his love? – in another room, which get covered up by yet another room even "farther" away.In the first scene of the play, a lovesick count named Orsino is listening to music that has a "dying fall." The music reminds him of his love for one of the other characters. The phrase "dying fall" is, you guessed it, another literary reference, this time to Shakespeare’s famous play, Twelfth Night.Prufrock says he has heard voices "dying" or fading away when music starts to play in a "farther room." We already know that he has a hard time entering rooms that contain people he wants to talk to (see lines 37-39), so he has to settle on overhearing other people’s voices through the walls. ![]() He basically lives from one cup of coffee to the next, with nothing interesting in between. Prufrock thinks he is impressing us, but he’s really damning himself before our eyes. What else have you done, Prufrock? Well, he has drank a lot of coffee – in fact, his whole existence can be "measured" by how much coffee he has drank.And by "done everything," we mean he has survived "evenings, mornings, afternoons." Impressive.He doesn’t need to do anything, because he’s done everything already! Now he’s trying to convince us that he’s a wise man with lots of experience.I know the voices dying with a dying fall I have measured out my life with coffee spoons Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, For I have known them all already, known them all:. ![]()
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