Module B

Question 1

Prufrock: etherized

Answer 1

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table

Question 2

Prufrock: oyster

Answer 2

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells

Question 3

Prufrock: question

Answer 3

To lead you to an overwhelming question …
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit

Question 4

Prufrock: Michelangelo

Answer 4

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

Question 5

Prufrock: yellow fog

Answer 5

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes

Question 6

Prufrock: curled

Answer 6

Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

Question 7

Prufrock: time, face/faces, indecisions

Answer 7

And indeed there will be time
…
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
…
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

Question 8

Prufrock: dare

Answer 8

To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”

Question 9

Prufrock: bald

Answer 9

Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair —
(They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”)

Question 10

Prufrock: coffee spoons

Answer 10

For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

Question 11

Prufrock: pinned and wriggling

Answer 11

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall

Question 12

Prufrock: braceleted

Answer 12

Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress

Question 13

Prufrock: cakes… crisis… marmalade… crisis

Answer 13

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
…
And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea

Question 14

Prufrock: bald… prophet… eternal Footman

Answer 14

Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet — and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.

Question 15

Prufrock: peach

Answer 15

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

Question 16

Prufrock: drown

Answer 16

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown

Question 17

Prelude I: burnt-out

Answer 17

Six o’clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

Question 18

Prelude I: newpapers

Answer 18

The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots

Question 19

Prelude I: cab-horse

Answer 19

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

Question 20

Preludes II… IV: trampled

Answer 20

sawdust-trampled street
…
Or trampled by insistent feet

Question 21

Rhapsody: geranium

Answer 21

Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium

Question 22

Rhapsody: drum

Answer 22

Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum

Question 23

Rhapsody: street lamp, lamp

Answer 23

The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said
…
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.
The lamp hummed

Question 24

Rhapsody: twist

Answer 24

And you see the corner of her eye
Twists like a crooked pin
…
The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
…
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form

Question 25

Rhapsody: time, lamp

Answer 25

Twelve o’clock.
…
Half-past one
…
Half-past two
…
Half-past three
…
The lamp said,
‘Four o’clock,
Here is the number on the door.
Memory!
You have the key

Question 26

Rhapsody: knife

Answer 26

The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall,
Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life.’

The last twist of the knife.

Question 27

Rhapsody: smells

Answer 27

Smells of chestnuts in the streets,
And female smells in shuttered rooms,
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.

Question 28

Rhapsody: la lune

Answer 28

La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smoothes the hair of the grass

Question 29

Rhapsody: smallpox, paper rose

Answer 29

The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne

Question 30

Rhapsody: nocturnal, reminiscence, geraniums

Answer 30

She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.’
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums

Question 31

Rhapsody: rancid

Answer 31

The street lamp said,
‘Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.’

Question 32

Rhapsody: toy

Answer 32

So the hand of a child, automatic,
Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along the quay.
I could see nothing behind that child’s eye
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters

Question 33

Hollow Men: no eyes

Answer 33

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars

Question 34

Hollow Men: deliberate disguises

Answer 34

Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves

Question 35

Hollow Men: dream kingdom

Answer 35

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death’s dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column

Question 36

Hollow Men: wind, fading star

Answer 36

And voices are
In the wind’s singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Question 37

Hollow men: headpiece

Answer 37

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.

Question 38

Hollow Men: dried voices

Answer 38

Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass

Question 39

Hollow men: whimper

Answer 39

This is the way the worlds ends
This is the way the worlds ends
This is the way the worlds ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Question 40

Prelude II: coffee

Answer 40

muddy feet that press
To early coffee-stands

Question 41

Prelude II: masquerades

Answer 41

With the other masquerades
That time resumes

Question 42

Prelude II: shades

Answer 42

One thinks of all the hands
That are raising dingy shades
In a thousand furnished rooms

Question 43

Prelude IV: infinitely

Answer 43

The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh

Question 44

Prelude IV: fuel

Answer 44

The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.

Question 45

Prelude IV: fade

Answer 45

His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock

Question 46

Prelude III: curled

Answer 46

You curled the papers from your hair,
Or clasped the yellow soles of feet
In the palms of both soiled hands.

Question 47

Prelude III: sordid

Answer 47

You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images

Question 48

Prelude III: sparrows

Answer 48

And the light crept up between the shutters
And you heard the sparrows in the gutters,

Question 49

Journey: cold

Answer 49

‘A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’

Question 50

Journey: summer palaces

Answer 50

The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices:

Question 51

Journey: folly

Answer 51

With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.

Question 52

Journey: temperate

Answer 52

Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;

Question 53

Journey: old white horse

Answer 53

With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
And three trees on the low sky,
And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.

Question 54

Journey: wine-skins

Answer 54

Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.

Question 55

Journey: satisfactory

Answer 55

And arriving at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you might say) satisfactory.

Question 56

Journey: Birth or Death?

Answer 56

All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death?

Question 57

Journey: Birth, certainly

Answer 57

There was a Birth, certainly
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.

Question 58

Journey: another death

Answer 58

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death