Question

Which two sections of this excerpt from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" contain a biblical allusion?

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet-and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"—
If one cattling a nillow her head,
Should say: “That is not what I meant at all; that is not it, at all.”

Answer 1

Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,

To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"—

Step-by-step explanation:

The two sections of this excerpt from T.S Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" that contain a biblical allusion are Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, and

To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"—

From the two sections, allusions are made first of all to John the Baptist whose head was brought on a platter for King Herod and Lazarus who was raised from the dead by Jesus. These are two valid events that happened and are recorded in the Bible.