In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," what two things are compared here? "When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized [asleep] upon a table"?

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Gideon Rowland

23 May, 11:23

In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," what two things are compared here? "When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized [asleep] upon a table"?

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Bentley Fox · Answer 1

The two things that are compared in the Poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' would be the evening and a patient. The depiction of the evening that is 'spread out against the sky' is likened to that of a patient being etherized upon a table when the person is asleep.