The correct answer is "tedious argument".
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is the first poem published by British Poet T.S. Eliot in 1915. The poem uses the style of the Modernist Movement, which reflected the changes that were occurring in the world as a result of the industrial revolution.
In the poem, the phrase "streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent" depict the mood of the author, as he expresses that life has become routinary and emotionless.