Question

Read this excerpt from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and answer the question.

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

What does the use of the word muttering suggest?

a feeling of discontent

the noise of city streets

the inability to be understood

a sense of loneliness




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Answer 1

the inability to be understood

Step-by-step explanation:

The word "muttering" refers to producing a long, dull sound, it also refers to speaking very low, inaudible and hard to understand.

The author in the above excerpt says that the retreats are muttering, that is, they are incomprehensible. For this reason, we can conclude from J. Alfred Prufrock's "The Song of Love" the word "muttering" refers to the inability to be misunderstood.