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Which two sets of lines in this excerpt from T.S. Elor's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" suggest that the speaker is concerned about how he relates to
others?
And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window panes;
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,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate,
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
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"
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!")
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin-
(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!")
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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Final answer:

The speaker's concern about how he relates to others is reflected in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".


Step-by-step explanation:

The subject of the question is English.

In this excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", the two sets of lines that suggest the speaker's concern about how he relates to others are:

  1. There will be time, there will be time
    To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

  2. Do I dare
    Disturb the universe?

These lines indicate the speaker's preoccupation with how he presents himself to others and his fear of taking action and potentially disrupting the established order.


Learn more about Concerns about self-presentation and taking action in T.S. Eliot's poem

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