Read the excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? . . . I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. Which words best indicate that Prufrock feels isolated?
B
rises, leaning, scuttlingThe words “narrow,” “lonely,” and “silent” create a mood of confinement and solitude. In particular, “lonely men” directly suggests isolation, while “narrow streets” and “silent seas” reinforce the bleak, isolated feeling. Choice A best captures these clues.
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