30 examples of Imagery from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
1. When
the evening is spread out against the sky (line2)
2. And
sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: (line 7)
3. The
yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, (line 15)
4. Lingered
upon the pools that stand in drains,(line 18)
5. With
a bald spot in the middle of my hair—(line 41)
6. My
necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—(line 43)
7. And
when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,(line 57)
8. Arms
that are braceleted and white and bare
(line 63)
9. (But
in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!) (line 64)
10. And
watched the smoke that rises from the pipes (line 71)
11. Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.(line 74)
12. And
the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! (line 75)
13. Smoothed
by long fingers, (line 76)
14. After
the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, (line 102)
15. But
as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen: (line 105)
16. I
shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
(line 121)
17. Shall
I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? (line 122)
18. I
have seen them riding seaward on the waves (line 126)
19. Combing
the white hair of the waves blown back (line 127)
20. When
the wind blows the water white and black. (line 128)
21. By
sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown (line 130)
22.
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— (line 117-118)
23.
Almost, at times, the Fool.
24.
After the novels, after the teacups, after the
skirts that trail along the floor—(line 103)
25.
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and
me, (line 89)
26.
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald)
brought in upon a platter,(line 82)
27.
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a
shawl.(line 68)
28.
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
(line 58)
29.
I know the voices dying with a dying fall (line
52)
30.
(They will say: “But how his arms and legs are
thin!”)(line 44)
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