Read the following lines from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock":
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question. ...
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
Which sentence best analyzes the poet's use of allusion in this passage?
A. The speaker refers to Michelangelo to show how people pretend
to be who they're not so they can fit in.
B. The speaker refers to "one-night cheap hotels" to suggest that
people can live frugally in difficult times.
C. The speaker mentions Hamlet to show how he comes to terms
with indecision and makes a stand.
D. The speaker compares the evening to an etherized patient to
suggest the ideas of fatigue and decay.