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“The Love Song of J Alfred
Prufrock” Vocabulary
Vocabulary from“The Love Song of J Alfred
Prufrock”1. Etherized2. Tedious3. presume4. digress5. malinger
6. Formulated7. assert8. deferential9. obtuse10. linger
1. etherized
LET us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out
against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;
v. -anesthetized with ether as before an operation
2. tedious
Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intent
-adj. tiresome because of length, boring
3. presume
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
v.-to expect something without justification; to take for granted
4. digress
Is it perfume from a dress 65That makes me so digress?
-v. to depart from the main subject; to ramble
5. malinger
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep … tired … or it malingers, Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
-v. to pretend incapacity or illness to avoid work
6. formulated
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 beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? 60
And how should I presume?
-v. reduced to or expressed as a formula
7. Assert
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—
(They will say: “But how his arms and legs are thin!”)
-v. confidently stated without proof, to maintain or affirm
8. deferential
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use, 115Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-
-adj. yielding to someone else’s opinions or values
9. obtuse
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use, 115Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-
-adj. lacking quickness of intellect
10. linger
We have lingered in the chambers of the seaBy sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and browTill human voices wake us, and we drown.
-v. to be slow in leaving